Suttree

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

Product details

• Authors: Cormac McCarthy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9781035039272
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503927-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Collection; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Tennessee, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1950 to c 1959, C 1945 To C 1960, Classic fiction: general and literary