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Suttree | 
| Author: Cormac Mccarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 4565
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0679736328
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679736325
ASIN: 0679736328
Publication Date: May 5, 1992
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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 on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
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 Definitely in my all-time 5 favorite book list. July 2, 2008
In my opinion, this is Cormac McCarthy at his absolute finest. The story of Suttree, the homeless vagabond, is so utterly compelling that time just falls away as you're reading it. If you've never read McCarthy (*gasp!*), this would be a helluva great place to start. This story haunts me.
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy June 29, 2008
I enjoyed this book very much. I have enjoyed all the books I have read by Cormac McCarthy. They don't always end happily but are true to life.
Suttree May 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've just read Suttree. As did McCarthy's later book, The Road, Suttree gave me the feeling of knowing, or having known, the protagonist, and liking him very much.
Dusty clockless hours of penetrating prose...... April 3, 2008
Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting of this masterfully mesmerizing novel of life at the edge and inside the cesspools of dozens of outcasts and derelicts.
Cornelius Suttree, as the story's main protagonist, takes the reader unhurriedly into the very heart of Knoxville as it existed in the 1950's.
Murky waters, strife, poverty, perversion, and crime all mingle within the bowels of the city.
McCarthy deftly captures the pulse of people's lives and spins stories with such a leathery, tenacious grace, that the reader is gently pulled into a stark and unordered life.... and down into the bare rawness of life with powerful prose.
When I first finished SUTTREE, I grabbed a pen before my mind had a chance to roam away somewhere else; I wrote the following....mimicking what I had just unraveled for the last few days and 471 pages....
'Hardswaggering through Suttree til my rheumy peepholes drank in the cloacal riverbottoms. Fareyed half naked cockerels nodded in a constant blue dawn.
Leprous waters churned bobbing maimed melons. Dragged up rawlooking tawed treponema on trotlines in the crepuscular dawn and almost drowned in the miasmic mierda and upflung penumbra.'
I dare not disremember this journey and Knoxville for a very long time!
Susanne
 Words oozed from the muddy river March 4, 2008
Perhaps not the first CMcC title one should look at. But I strongly recommend this book to the dedicated reader. I feel it is full of rewards for those who can persevere. The stoic Suttree, almost unknowable, inhabits a world of depressive sludge where the dank sky brings forth very little hope. The characters and scenes are painted meticulously, all crying out from their painful existence. Yet there is very little complaint but a great deal of ingenuity, although mostly fraught with failure. Like a bitter jar of moonshine whiskey this story must be suffered to be savored. The overall effect, a numbing dreamscape depicted so thoroughly that falling into its murky reality finally made sense.
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