Suttree Suttree

Publisher Description

In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian.

Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair' – Times Literary Supplement


1951. Cornelius Suttree lives alone, exiled on a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River. As we meet him, Suttree watches the police haul the body of a suicidal man from the water. Amongst the living, the river is home to hermits, sex workers, alcoholics – and a witch.

Conjuring James Joyce's Ulysses, Suttree wanders the river with a detachment and wry humour, encountering a broad cast of humanity as he does – even as dereliction and destitution threaten the last of his remaining dignity.

'Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear' – New York Times

Praise for Cormac McCarthy:

‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren

'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series

'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
10 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
576
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan
SIZE
3.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Muskie999 ,

Gripping & starkly beautiful

A brilliant piece of literature - adding more words won't define it any better \o/

Noogatabua ,

Suttree

I have read this book several times over the years. It's a novel so well written that I fear one day as an old man getting a bit confused, I may start recounting Suttrees adventures as my own.... I only hope I do the author justice.

Joe Beats ,

Incredible

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