Burns, Olive Ann

Cold Sassy tree by Olive Ann Burns( Book )
74 editions published between 1984 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 4,284 libraries worldwide
Modern times come to a conservative Southern town in 1906 when the proprietor of the general store elopes with a woman half his age, and worse yet, a Yankee. 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. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence; meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it; he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style.

Leaving Cold Sassy : the unfinished sequel to Cold Sassy tree by Olive Ann Burns( Book )
12 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,698 libraries worldwide
Continues the tale of Will Tweedy and life in a Georgia town.

Leaving Cold Sassy by Olive Ann Burns( Sound Recording )
9 editions published between 1992 and 1995 in English and held by 330 libraries worldwide
Presents the sequel to Cold Sassy tree.

Cold Sassy Tree( visu )
4 editions published between 1989 and 1990 in English and held by 12 libraries worldwide
At the turn of the century an older man scandalizes the town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when he marries a much younger woman shortly after his wife's death.

Ein Dorf voller Narren Roman by Olive Ann Burns( Book )
3 editions published between 1987 and 1990 in German and Undetermined and held by 7 libraries worldwide
Der 14jährige Will erlebt einen im Sommer 1906 in einer Kleinstadt Georgias Freud und Leid des Erwachsenenwerdens und den Wirbel, der um seinen heiratslustigen, eben verwitweten Opa entsteht.

Cold Sassy tree ; Leaving Cold Sassy by Olive Ann Burns( Book )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide

Cold Sassy tree by Joan Tewkesbury( visu )
2 editions published in 1989 in No Linguistic Content and English and held by 1 library worldwide

Olive Ann Burns Sparks postcard, 1985 August 30 by Olive Ann Burns( mixd )
2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
The collection consists of a postcard from Olive Ann Burn Sparks to Emily Calhoun in Atlanta. She thanked Ms. Calhoun for writing her about Cold Sassy Tree and mentions the art of journal writing. The postcard is dated August 30, 1985.

Leaving Cold Sassy : sound recording by Olive Ann Burns( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
This is a portrait of a grown-up Will Tweedy; of the feisty schoolteacher who captures his heart; and of the town that has claimed a place in the American imagination.

La Destinée de Mademoiselle Simpson( visu )
1 edition published in 1990 in French and held by 1 library worldwide