Description
| Product ID: | 9780330511230 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Suttree |
| Authors: | Author: Cormac McCarthy |
| Page Count: | 576 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Alone and exiled on a dilapidated houseboat, a man named Suttree lives amongst the outcasts of humanity. From Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses. <p><b>In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. <i>Suttree</i> is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of <i>The Road </i>and <i>Blood Meridian</i>.<br><br>‘<i>Suttree </i>contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair' – <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>Conjuring James Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i>, 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.<br><br><b>'Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear' – <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and<i> The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[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 <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-01-01 |
