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Book Review of Cold Sassy Tree

Cold Sassy Tree
Cold Sassy Tree
Author: Olive Ann Burns
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906 things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson--a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day, fourteen year old Will Tweedy's adventures began and an unimpeachably pious, deliciusly irreverent town came to life.