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Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

Genre Fiction Books & Literature

Format Paperback

Dimensions 5.18 (w) x 7.98 (h) x 0.95 (d)

Pages 480

Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Date May 1992

ISBN 9780679736325

Book ISBN 10 0679736328

About Book

By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree 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.

Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's 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. (October)

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