Suttree
By Cormac McCarthy
By Cormac McCarthy
By Cormac McCarthy
By Cormac McCarthy
Part of Vintage International
Part of Vintage International
Category: Literary Fiction | Western Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Western Fiction
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$18.00
May 05, 1992 | ISBN 9780679736325
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Aug 11, 2010 | ISBN 9780307762474
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Praise
“McCarthy’s prose [is] laudable, his characters the most inhabited, his sense of place the most blood worthy and thoroughly felt of any living writer.” —Esquire
“Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor.” —The Times Literary Supplement (London)
“All of McCarthy’s books present the reviewer with the same welcome difficulty. They are so good that one can hardly say how good they really are. . . . Suttree may be his magnum opus. Its protagonist, Cornelius Suttree, has forsaken his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat among the inhabitants of the demimonde along the banks of the Tennessee River. His associates are mostly criminals of one sort or another, and Suttree is, to say the least, estranged from what might be called normal society. But he is so involved with life (and it with him) that when in the end he takes his leave, the reader’s heart goes with him. Suttree is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy’s books . . . which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature.” —Stanley Booth
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