Synopsis
In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian.
‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair' – Times Literary...
Details
04 April 2024576 pages
9781035039272Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Suttree marks McCarthy's closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his booksStanley Booth, journalist and author of the True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
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
A freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’ConnorTimes Literary Supplement
