Suttree (Modern Library) - Hardcover

McCarthy, Cormac

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067964265X ISBN 13: 9780679642657

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Cornelius Suttree renounces the values held by his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat among the depraved residents on the banks of the Tennessee River. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

Suttree marks McCarthy's closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books. (Stanley Booth)

The book comes at us like a horrifying flood. The language licks, batters, wounds - a poetic, troubled rush of debris . . . Cormac McCarthy has little mercy to spare, for his characters or himself. His text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots . . . Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear. (Jerome Charyn New York Times)

Book Description:

‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor’ Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 067964265X
• ISBN 13: 9780679642657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 471