Suttree
by McCarthy, Cormac
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0679736328
- ISBN 13
- 9780679736325
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
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Synopsis
Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1979. Set in 1951 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River. The novel has a fragmented structure with many flashbacks and shifts in grammatical person. Suttree has been compared to James Joyce's Ulysses, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row , and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . The novel took McCarthy 20 years to write, and he was 46 when it was published in 1979.
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Reviews
Knoxville, Tennessee in the early 1950s serves as the main setting for Suttree. The main character, Cornelius Suttree, is a fisherman who resides on the river in a run-down houseboat. Having become estranged from his well-known family, he has turned away from the society they stand for in favor of a different reality where people lead unstable, violent, and frequently desperate lives. "McCarthy is a writer to he read, to be admired, and quite honestly- envied" (Ralph Ellison, 1994). I had also reviewed this book on shabd.in
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13217
- Title
- Suttree
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0679736328
- ISBN 13
- 9780679736325
- Publisher
- Vintage / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- new books; peng/rand;
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