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Epicurus.com - Leaving Cold Sassy
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List Price: $16.00
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Manufacturer: Delta
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385312202
ISBN: 0385312202
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
Publisher: Delta
Release Date: 1994-02-01
Studio: Delta
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Editorial Reviews:
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Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann  Burns unforgettable story of a Georgia town at the  turn of the century, has captivated millions of  readers with its tale of Grandpa Blakeslee, his young  bride Miss Love, and the irrepressible  fiteen-year-old Will Tweedy. Throughout her long battle with  cancer, Olive Ann Burns worked passionately on a  sequel to this magical book. Only during her final  days did she realize she wouldn't complete it,  dictating from her hospital bed her wishes that the  finished chapters be published.
The result  is Leaving Cold Sassy - a  portait of the grown-up Will Tweedy; of the feisty  young schoolteacher who captures his heart; of the  town that has claimed a place in the American  imagination; and, in a fascinating reminiscence by her  editor, of Olive Ann Burns, a writer who didn't get  a chance to finish her extraordinary tale.
  Complete with Olive Ann Burn's notes for later  scenes and chapters exactly as she wrote them,  Leaving Cold Sassy is a final, loving  goodbye to Cold Sassy, Georgia.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: waste of time...
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Great partner with Cold Sassy Tree
Comment: (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.
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Summary: Should have been left alone
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Leaving Cold Sassy
Comment: Very obvious not written with the content the Author had orginally intended but it does give closer to the Cold Sassy.
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Summary: Don't buy this!
Comment: 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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