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Cold Sassy tree

Just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee's death, Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee elopes with a Yankee half his age, which creates a lot of excitement among the residents of Cold Sassy, Ga.

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  • "On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal. -Back cover."
  • "On July 5, 1906 in Cold Sassy, Georgia, E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson who is half his age. Love is revealed to be a Yankee upon which such an identity remains a stigma in the South at this time. On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy's adventures began and the pious town is invigorated."
  • "Just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee's death, Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee elopes with a Yankee half his age, which creates a lot of excitement among the residents of Cold Sassy, Ga."
  • "Just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee's death, Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee elopes with a Yankee half his age, which creates a lot of excitement among the residents of Cold Sassy, Ga."@en
  • "One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around - fast. On July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day that 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 town came to life."@en
  • "One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around - fast. On July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day that 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 town came to life."
  • "Tom Parker's enlightened reading greatly enhances the emotive effect of the novel. With an impressive array of consistently natural voices, he involves the listener directly in the drama of the characters' lives. A hilarious and passionate book. Will Tweedy is like some wonderful blend of Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield. One of the best portraits of small-town Southern life ever written."@en
  • "Tom Parker's enlightened reading greatly enhances the emotive effect of the novel. With an impressive array of consistently natural voices, he involves the listener directly in the drama of the characters' lives. A hilarious and passionate book. Will Tweedy is like some wonderful blend of Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield. One of the best portraits of small-town Southern life ever written."
  • "Cold Sassy, Georgia in the early 1900's. A widower elopes with a young woman and sets the town a-buzzing."@en
  • "The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal."@en
  • "A proper southern gent elopes with Yankee gal half his age."@en
  • "Set in Cold Sassy, Georgia in 1906, the novel tells of a romance that rocks the inhabitants of this small southern town. The match between Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee, a bare 3 weeks after Granny Blakeslee's demise, and the town's young milliner, Love Simpson, is narrated by Will Tweedy, chaperone, conspirator and confidant to the couple."

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  • "History"
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  • "Cold Sassy tree"@en
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  • "Cold Sassy Tree"
  • "Cold sassy tree (unabridged) a novel"@en
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