Suttree
(1992, original release: 1979)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/MCCARTHY,C
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PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, 1992
©1979
©1979
EDITION
First Vintage International edition
DESCRIPTION
471 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0394482131, 9780679736325, 0679736328, 9780679736325
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Here 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