6/19/2023 0 Comments Sassy tree book![]() ![]() She had created a wow of a book, and the book-her readers and her publishers decided-demanded a sequel. Olive Burns, in this publication process, became a cash cow. (And to a time when adventure seemed to be somehow within everyone’s grasp.) The reason adventure was possible was of course because everyone was interesting-life itself was interesting-unsoiled, unspoiled. ![]() If we could only go back to those days when, in little towns, everyone knew everybody else, and everyone was somebody. The action was seen through the eyes of Will Tweedy, his 14-year-old grandson.īut the plot was not the thing with “Cold Sassy Tree.” It was the evocation of a world-lost, gone but still with us in so many ways-that turned its readers to melted butter. The plot concerned a feisty granddad who, when his wife died, mourned for three weeks and then married a perky milliner about three decades his junior. ![]() The book sold and sold and would not stop selling. “Cold Sassy Tree,” a sweet, funny, “Southern” book, inspired unreasonable affection from all sorts of fans. Burns was 60 and had written her novel under the constant, bullying threat of lymphoma. Olive Ann Burns’ first novel, “Cold Sassy Tree,” was published in 1984. ![]()
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