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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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We don’t talk enough about SUTTREE. It’s Cormac McCarthy’s neglected, quiet masterpiece.
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The impetus behind my current novel was while reading Suttree, I said to myself, imagine if Cormac McCarthy wrote a straight-up horror novel... Lol. I can't write like McCarthy, not even close, but I'm going for that vibe. I hope it works.
Le Chevalier aux Fleurs
This new King Krule pairs so nicely with Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree
"Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)
"All of McCarthy's books present the reviewer with the same welcome difficulty. They are so good that one can hardly say how good they really are. . . . Suttree may be his magnum opus. Its protagonist, Cornelius Suttree, has forsaken his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat among the inhabitants of the demimonde along the banks of the Tennessee River. His associates are mostly criminals of one sort or another, and Suttree is, to say the least, estranged from what might be called normal society. But he is so involved with life (and it with him) that when in the end he takes his leave, the reader's heart goes with him. Suttree is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy's books . . . which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature." --Stanley Booth