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| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autofiction |
| Set in | 1950s Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | May 1979 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 471 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-679-73632-8 |
| OCLC | 26322333 |
Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1979. Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, over a four-year period starting in 1950, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River.
The novel has a fragmented structure with many flashbacks and shifts in grammatical person. Suttree has been compared[1] to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and called "a doomed Huckleberry Finn"[2] by Jerome Charyn. Suttree was written over a 20-year span[3] and is a departure from McCarthy's previous novels, being much longer, more sprawling in structure, and perhaps his most humorous.
- ^ "The New York Times: Book Review Search Article". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
- ^ "Suttree". archive.nytimes.com.
- ^ "Cormac McCarthy Papers". www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu. July 7, 2020.