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| Leaving Cold Sassy | 
| Author: Olive Ann Burns
Publisher: Delta
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 260595
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0385312202
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385312202
ASIN: 0385312202
Publication Date: February 1, 1994
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Product Description
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive AnnBurns unforgettable story of a Georgia town at theturn of the century, has captivated millions ofreaders with its tale of Grandpa Blakeslee, his youngbride Miss Love, and the irrepressiblefiteen-year-old Will Tweedy. Throughout her long battle withcancer, Olive Ann Burns worked passionately on asequel to this magical book. Only during her finaldays did she realize she wouldn't complete it,dictating from her hospital bed her wishes that thefinished chapters be published.
The resultis Leaving Cold Sassy - aportait of the grown-up Will Tweedy; of the feistyyoung schoolteacher who captures his heart; of thetown that has claimed a place in the Americanimagination; and, in a fascinating reminiscence by hereditor, of Olive Ann Burns, a writer who didn't geta chance to finish her extraordinary tale.
Complete with Olive Ann Burn's notes for laterscenes and chapters exactly as she wrote them,Leaving Cold Sassy is a final, lovinggoodbye to Cold Sassy, Georgia.
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 waste of time... November 30, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I LOVED Cold Sassy Tree and expected more of the same and wanted MORE about the characters that I grew to love, sadly... I was just terribly disappointed. If I'm not mistaken, Olive Ann Burns didn't even get to finish this novel before she died and someone else took it over and had it published. Makes me wonder if she would've done it better or just scrapped the whole idea of a sequel if she'd lived.
 Great partner with Cold Sassy Tree September 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
(LEAVING COLD SASSY is the unfinished sequel to Cold Sassy Tree with Reminiscence by Katrina Kenison)
After author Olive Ann Burns' first book, Cold Sassy Tree, became an instant hit when it was published in 1984, it received overwhelming accolades from readers and critics across the country. Everyone wanted a sequel, and Burns, who was struggling with cancer and later, congestive heart failure, wanted to write it. But she was the world's most particular writer: she had spent years writing and re-writing her first book, yet she hoped to have the sequel done by 1991. Bedridden for months at a time, finally losing her lifetime love, Andy Sparks, whom she'd met at The Atlanta Constitution and Journal, Burns fought against time to finish the sequel, called Time, Dirt, and Money.
But she had barely finished the first 14 chapters when she died quite suddenly at her and her husband's mountain retreat--The Write House, in Commerce, Georgia. So Mariner Books has put together both books, Cold Sassy Tree and its unfinished sequel in two soft cover editions to be re-issued September 2007. There readers can at least get a glimpse into the lives of Will Tweedy and his bride, Sanna, ten years after the first book ended.
This is a more grownup Will talking, his dialect rectified by schooling, but his appetites for resistant women just as powerful as in his childhood. His stubbornness and determination to win Sanna remind us of his Grandpa Blakeslee's stubbornness and determination to marry whomever he wanted, too. This book has no similar strong character like Grandpa to carry it, but Burn was planning to use Will's Aunt Loma to take his place. How it would have turned out, we'll never know.
But even more interesting than the fiction, I found Olive Ann's biography written by her friend, Katrina Kenison, to be a wonderful insight into the author's character, with all her quirks, optimism and determination.
Armchair Interviews says: read both books for a delightful journey into one writer's character and her favorite people.
Should have been left alone January 16, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
A very disappointing "sequel" to the original Cold Sassy Tree. The finished section was ok, but reading the author's notes as to possibilities that should, could or would happen next were very unfulfilling. The marriage difficulties based on Sanna's personality and Will's unrelenting love for his first girlfriend didn't seem to spring from any of what the author wrote in the first half. "Leave" this one alone.
 Leaving Cold Sassy January 10, 2007
Very obvious not written with the content the Author had orginally intended but it does give closer to the Cold Sassy.
 Don't buy this! January 29, 2006
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is unfinished. The author died before she could complete it. It has none of the humor or warmth of the original book. I believe it was published by the heirs as a way to squeeze some money from their mother's estate. Shame on them!
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