Suttree
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4.2 • 176 calificaciones
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- $11.99
Descripción editorial
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville.
Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Knoxville, Tenn., in the 1950s, this novel tells the story of a man who has repudiated his well-to-do parents, deserted his wife and is now a river fisherman who consorts with robbers, ragmen and other outcasts. "McCarthy captures these people's lives and speech with a tough, lyric grace,'' PW commented.
Reseñas de clientes
Suttree
Suttree shows what an amazing writer Cormac McCarthy is. A depressing tale of unrealized potential is still a worthy read as you journey through a life of tragedy, loyalty, triumph, and despair.
What’s the Point?
I loved the beginning of this book. And I loved the many bizarre (to me) characters and McCarthy’s descriptions of Knoxville. But toward the middle I started to get bored. It just kept going, and the pointlessness, always apparent in the first half too, became overwhelming. Because I didn’t learn that much about why Suttree was such an odd, self-destructive man, I never cared that much about him. That also made it hard to finish.
Suttree
My favorite book