About this title: Cormac McCarthy's highly unusual novel, set in 1951 Knoxville (where the author grew up), is the story of Cornelius Suttree, a distinct oddball unlike the young, questing heroes of most of McCarthy's other books. Suttree has given up a life of patrician wealth to live alone on a broken-down old houseboat on the Tennessee River, where he hopes to ...
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Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 5/5/1992
ISBN-13:9780679736325ISBN:0679736328
Description: Fair. 0679736328 Soft cover book that has light overall wear to the cover and corners. There is a some light water damage to some of the pages. The binding is tight and the pages are clean throughout. Expedited shipping available. Fast shipping. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1986-10-12
ISBN-13:9780394741451ISBN:0394741455
Description: Fair. Very worn covers. Piece missing from upper edge of title page. No markings. Still a good reading copy with tightly bound pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 03/08/2007
ISBN-13:9780330306423ISBN:0330306421
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Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Description: Fair. 0394741455 Mild cover and shelf wear. Front cover beginning to curl. Pages beginning to tan. No marking in text. Binding solid. No creases in spine or covers. Not remainder or ex-library. Packaged carefully for shipping. Ships within 24 hours. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: PAPER BACK
Publisher: VINTAGE
Date Published: 1992
Description: GOOD. 5X8. Book si slightly shelf cocked and has some creasing and staining to front cover, a clean tight copy for reading _PAB_ read more
Description: New. By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining o... read more
"The title character is a grown-up Huck Finn, out of territory, and returned to southern mid-America--lto live in a ramshackle houseboat on the Tennessee River outside of Knoxville, to be exact. The Huck Finn echoes are reinforced by the unforgettable teenager Gene Harrowgate, one of the best comic inventions in recent American lit history. Indeed, McCarthy has crafted an epic where the participants are decidedly unromanticized no-future derelicts, and while the effect is often funny in a way you might never have imagined this author capable of being, it's just as often poetically and profoundly sad, as much as any novel I've ever read. A half-step away from the scintillating hell-fired prose of BLOOD MERIDIAN--kids, if you want a book that will build your vocabulary or else cause you "skullpangs," as McCarthy would put it, give this a try.
"It's difficult to describe this book without using the word masterpiece: McCarthy offers a complete vision of humanity, struggling vainly, lost and looking for meaning in their world. Suttree is the ultimate "absurd man" (Camus), a compassionate observer of the low life characters on the river and in the neighborhoods of Knoxville. One of my favorite lines sums up Suttree's role and the perspective McCarthy offers through his observations; it comes when Suttree discovers an acquaintance dead and he spends the night watching over the body: "The keeper of this brief vigil said that he'd guessed something of the working in the wings, the ropes and sandbags and the houselight toggles. Heard dimly a shuffling and coughing beyond the painted drop of the world." (P 422) Despite the futility of men's efforts, the squalor, and the sense of temporality, Suttree shows the reader a nobility in man's wanderings in the world. McCarthy's writing is rich; image leaden and lyric, almost exhausting for the reader who tries to soak it all up."
"I was excited to read this book because it takes place in Knoxville, TN, where I have lived for almost a year. I enjoyed getting absorbed in the 1950s version of the city, but found parts of the book to be overly dense and florid. However, the dialogue is great and there are some very funny moments. There isn't much plot - it's mainly a character study - but it reads as sort of an anti-Huckleberry Finn. Whereas the Mississippi River in Twain's book represents movement and life, the Tennessee River in McCarthy's book is an embodiment of stagnation and decay.
Definitely read it if you plan to visit Knoxville!"
"Well..I have to say this may be the best book I've read. The book follows Cornelius Suttree as he live his life on the river in Knoxville TN. There is such a wealth of characters in this book, that you will find someone in this book to root for or hate. This book reminds me so much of a Flannery O'Connor story or a Faulkner book. McCarthy manages to capture the beauty of Tennessee and the beauty of the human condition. This book is filled with great humor and great sadness. I recommend this book to anyone and every one."
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