It was obvious in the reading that things needed sharpening-but again, this was a polished rough draft of the first 15 chapters of many. How do you rate a novel that is far from finished, written by a master storyteller who, given time, would probably have rewritten even the chapters available? How do you rate where the story might've gone, based on notes, knowing that the nature of fiction means things in the story would've changed as the author continued writing? Of course I was happy to spend a few more chapters with Will Tweedy, since Cold Sassy Tree has long been a favorite of mine-the book I still give as gifts to other book-loving friends. For now, it is reading - lots of it.įor Olive Ann Burns masterpiece (if you haven't already read it), see It helped me to come to another level of accepting chronic illness, and challenged me to embrace the solace by doing something I wouldn't have the focus to do otherwise - i'm still thinking about what that might look like. I understand this from personal experience. Personally, Olive Ann Burns' story highlighted the isolation of illness, and detailed how this isolation was a necessary motivation for Burns' writing. In spite of tremendous suffering and encroaching old age, I was challenged by the Sparks/Burns positive outlook, as were all who knew them. Cancer became Burns' muse, but in the end the muse took her away before she could finish her work. Burns' struggle with cancer, her husbands struggle with cancer, and their deaths, are recounted. The nonfiction was a bit slow, but challenging. The biography is written by her publisher, who developed a close relationship with Burns and her husband, Andy Sparks.Īs expected, the fiction of the unfinished work, is good, but not as polished as Cold Sassy Tree, and inspite of Olive Ann Burns' efforts, still leaves the reader with a lack of completion regarding what happens to Will Tweedy and Cold Sassy.
The fiction consists of the unfinished sequel that Olive Ann Burns wrote, but was unable to finish before her death. This book is half fiction, half biography.
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