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Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

1979471 pagesabout 7–11 hours
1979
first published
  • 1979Random House · 471 pages · ENGISBN 9780394482132
  • 1980Chatto and Windus · 471 pages · ENGISBN 9780701125066
  • 1986Vintage Books · ENGISBN 9780394741451
  • 2002Modern Library · 471 pages · ENGISBN 9780679642657
  • 2010Pan MacMillanISBN 9780330511230
  • 1992Peter Smith Publisher · ENGISBN 9780844667928
  • 1989Picador · 480 pagesISBN 9780330306423
  • 1992Vintage · 480 pages · ENGISBN 9780679736325

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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