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Title: Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, Tom Parker ISBN: 0-7861-9924-5 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 11 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (174 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great novel for reluctant readers age 13 and up.
Comment: As a high school teacher in rural Illinois, I am always on the look out for exciting new literature for my classroom. I stumbled upon COLD SASSY TREE while reading an article in ENGLISH JOURNAL, and decided to give it a try. I was touched by this book. It is lyric and not sappy, warm and not stuffy. To my great amazement, my freshman students consumed the thing whole. Some of the most reluctant readers in my class finished the entire novel in 48 hours.
Just about any platform is served by the storyline: gender issuses, death and dying, sexual abuse (non-graphic), love, coming-of-age, ageism, socio-economic issues,and family life. You name it, it's in there. I was concerned that some parents would be uptight about Love Simpson's history of abuse, and not one word was said. Some male students asked to read out in the hall, as they were teary-eyed at the end of the book.
Will Tweedy is a great character. He is an unreliable narrator who lies, listens in on private conversations, torments family members and falls for a girl from the other side of the tracks. My students all saw a little of themselves in him, good and bad.
COLD SASSY TREE is on the top shelf of my presonal library. I've owned two paperback copies of the sequel and my students have worn them both out. The school librarian finally bought aa couple of hard bound editions for the library.
A lovely novel all in all.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful novel!!!
Comment: I read this book for school over the summer. Now that I've finished, I am so happy it was assigned. This was one of those books that you miss when your done reading.
It takes place in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia in the early 1900s. The story is told by a 14 year old boy who has recently lost his best friend and his grandmother. Three weeks after his grandma's death his Grandfather announces that he is going to marry a young woman who is half his age. The family is embarrassed and the town is shocked. After almost a year the town and family starts to accept her the way she accepted them.
I wrote this review as a response to other reviews that I read on the site. Frankly, I was outraged by what some people had to say about this book. Someone claimed that the Grandfather raped his granddaughter and one of the boys friends raped his own sister. I don't know what version he read but that was not at all a part of the story!!! The woman the grandfather married tells that she was raped as a child but that was the only raping that went on in the book, and it was needed to explain why she was so afraid of marring and men. Another person said that a child getting whipped is "HORRIFYING" but that was part of the culture back then. People do not agree with it now but back then it happened all the time. There was also a touch of racism in the plot but again it was needed so that Olive Burns could accurately portray southern life in the early 20th. century.
This book was a joy to read and I cannot wait to get the 2nd. part Leaving Cold Sassy. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Rating: 1
Summary: Unimaginative
Comment: As a lover of books, I began reading this book with great expectations. However, I found the story noncompelling, the writing unimaginative, and the characters uninteresting. I must confess I do not understand the nationwide obsession. I have read far better glimpses into small-town Southern life.
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Title: Leaving Cold Sassy by Olive Ann Burns ISBN: 0385312202 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title:Cold Sassy Tree ASIN: 630158919X Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 15 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.95 |
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Title: Mama Makes Up Her Mind : And Other Dangers of Southern Living by Bailey White ISBN: 0679751602 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Bean Trees : A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0061097314 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith ISBN: 006092988X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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