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| Original Title: | Suttree |
| ISBN: | 0679736328 (ISBN13: 9780679736325) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Cornelius Suttree, Gene Harrogate |
| Setting: | Knoxville, Tennessee,1951(United States) Tennessee(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Lillian Smith Book Award (1980) |
Cormac McCarthy
Paperback | Pages: 471 pages Rating: 4.18 | 16947 Users | 1348 Reviews
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This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity.
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| Title | : | Suttree |
| Author | : | Cormac McCarthy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 471 pages |
| Published | : | May 1992 by Vintage International (first published May 1979) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Gothic. Southern Gothic. Novels. Classics |
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In this novel McCarthy abandons his usual formula. Instead of initially creating a close relationship of innocence and leading it into perils here he gives us a solitary itinerant character who, upon release from prison, sets up home in a shack by the Mississippi River. The novel follows the somewhat aimless trials and tribulations of Cornelius Suttree. Suttree is McCarthy's most self-indulgent novel. In all his novels he occasionally juxtaposes his minimalistic sentence writing with complexSuttree is an unusual book by McCarthy, for it lacks the genre conventions he sometimes employs and subverts. Here there is no plot, and it is focused on the picaresque adventures of the eponymous hero and his gang of misfits and compatriots. Comic misadventures and schemes a lá Twain occur, passages of beat gutter poetry, stark imagery and characters out of medieval allegory or the Old Testament (Witches, fools, and madmen); makes for a strange but beautifully written book. The prose creates
I am helpless to talk about this book. There are a lot of words that I did not understand. Suttree by Cormac is a book that deserves, much like some of Malick's films. The pen of the big Mac is like a brush taking its time on the canvas, where a sentence would suffice to describe a flight of birds making crates. Here we are far from Kerouac and its small ballads on the road. Here is lost America. At the edge of Knoxville live the outcasts, the excluded voluntary or not of the system, there are
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones. Cormac McCarthys unique and distinctive voice in American literature is in rare form in his 1979 Southern Gothic novel about a young man who steps away from a comfortable life with an affluent family to live on the Knoxville riverfront within a populace of drunks and neer do wells. Reminiscent of Steinbeck, Faulkner, James Joyce, and Robert Penn
Cormac McCarthy at his best--..writing with the throttle wide open--is still the closest thing to heroin you can buy in a bookstore. --Hal CrowtherA Smoky Mountain High: Trudging through Smokies with Loquacious, Abstruse McCarthyHaled by cognoscenti, this early Cormac McCarthy tale follows the travails of Cornelius Suttree, a wayward, educated and privileged itinerant, as he wanders through the backwoods and over the rivers and streams of the Smoky Mountains, his acquaintances with the
I will never think of watermelons the same way again!, I mean "the moonlight melonmounter", come on!, by McCarthy's standards this was a laugh riot compared to his other works, but still retains the dark themes of misery, misfits and poverty. I didn't think anything would topple the awesome "Blood Meridian", well this most definitely did. An epic Tennessee masterpiece.
Not since I first read Tom Wolfes Look Homeward Angel have I encountered anyone who could write prose that rings so much like poetry or song lyric as Cormac McCarthy. If I were rating just the opening section of this book, it would get 5-stars, hands down. To say McCarthy conjures up other great writers is an understatement, for in addition to Wolfe, I immediately thought of Walt Whitman and the earthy descriptions in Song of Myself. Finally, as other readers have so often remarked, he channels
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