Suttree
Cormac McCarthy
A tale of survival and wit, centered around an exiled man living alone in a disintegrating houseboat on the outskirts of Knoxville. Suttree navigates the poverty-stricken and criminal community around him with a detachment and humor that allow him to rise above the squalor of his environment.
Publish Date
1992-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
1992-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1979
Goodreads Rating
4.2
ISBN
9780679736325
Categories
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2016-06-05T00:00:00.000Z
A former professor living on a Tennessee River houseboat ekes out a livelihood selling his catch, then drinks away his profits with Knoxville's misfits and miscreants. McCarthy's prose is ancient and exact and mythic, and his portrait of America's underbelly in the 1950s is shocking in its depiction of human degradation. – source