'Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor' Times Literary Supplement
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Set in Knoxville, Tenn., in the 1950s, this novel tells the story of a man who has repudiated his well-to-do parents, deserted his wife and is now a river fisherman who consorts with robbers, ragmen and other outcasts. ``McCarthy captures these people's lives and speech with a tough, lyric grace,'' PW commented. (October)
Suttree marks McCarthy's closest approach to autobiography
and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books.
-- Stanley Booth
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 *
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