The novel was adapted into a TV movie in 1989, starring Richard Widmark, Faye Dunaway, and Neil Patrick Harris. In 2000, the American composer Carlisle Floyd wrote an opera based on the book.
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The Question and Answer section for Cold Sassy Tree is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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Lots of people in Cold Sassy had a telephone, including us. Grandpa didn't. He had one at the store so he could phone orders to the wholesale house in Athens, but he was too stingy to pay for one at home. Aunt Loma didn't have a...
That would be with Cudn Temp on a farm in Black County.
Loma gives Will a journal and tells him to write his stories and things down. She has decided that he should be a writer when he grows up. Will doesn't want to be a writer, but decides that he would like to keep a journal.
