- Families, Fiction, Country life, Georgia, fiction
Had difficulty with the unfamiliar language spoken by the characters, but once I was able to figure it out I enjoyed the family dynamics. Upon finishing this book, I immediately borrowed "Leaving Cold Sassy".
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Classical in form, warm, resolved and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Olive Ann Burns
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 396
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Dell, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440514428
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