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Suttree |  | Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Rating:  74 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: Later printing
Pages: 480
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0679736328
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679736325
Publication Date: May 5, 1992
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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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Showing reviews 1-5 of 74
 book February 8, 2010
quit smoking
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To the layman reader, the book was overly comprehensive. McCarthy writes so much off the wall imagery its hard to naturally/instinctly imagine wtf he's talking about. The story it self is very slow.
 Suttree December 27, 2009
Chris (University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book toyed with my emotions in ways others had only fleeting success at doing. Just an absolutely marvelous depiction of rueful poverty in the South in the 1950s. Everyone knows McCarthy's good; Suttree, which is supposedly one of his most autobiographical, and its sincerity suggest that McCarthy's so good at riffling through the more morose aspects of human nature because he himself has lived through many of them.
 Sutree December 16, 2009
Professor Joseph L. McCauley (Austria+Texas)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was attracted to this McCarthy because I knew Knoxville in the 1950s as kid (and later in the 1970s-80s). I don't recognize the trash-strewn sections and derelicts described by McCarthy.
They were apparently well hidden from Gay and Market Streets. Ft. Loudon Lake, the Tennessee River in that region, is dear to my heart. The book is well-written, interesting, exhibits many archaic words.
Everyone in the book is either drunk or getting drunk, was in prison or is likely headed for prison, lives in a shack or under a bridge. The main character, college educated Sutree, can't say 'no' to a drink and runs only with other derelicts and alcoholics. He shows a deep, nihilistic egoism, can't help anyone (first, not himself) and runs from people close to him who need help, including a young girl who provides him with nearly the only sexual pleasure he gets in the book. Hard to classify the character. Alcoholic, to some degree sociopathic. Knoxville and Ft. Loudon were pleasant places, measure one, but you don't discover that in this book, although the characters do go to Regas' Restaurant, the famous Knoxville steak house of the 1950s whenever they have a few bucks burning a hole in their pockets. I missed one thing that characterized Ft. Loudon Lake in the 1950s: outboard pleasure and fishing boats, the lake was full of them. Ol' Sut must have felt a wake or two whilst setting out trotlines or relaxing on his houseboat, but there's nary a mention of that in the text.
The characters and setting are real. Memorable is the mother who mourned her 'fallen warrior' after the oversized brute was killed in a last drunken brawl. Brings to mind the host of poor Scot-Irish descended boys in E. Ky. who seemed born only for fighting, and who'd use any excuse to pick a fight if they thought they could whip you. Gittchi a copy 'n read it, ol' Sut 'n th' City Mouse'll stay withyee, yee won't be able ta git riduvem even if yee want to.
Not Playing To His Strengths December 13, 2009
D. Ashal (Aztlan, holmes)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like a lot of Cormack McCarthy's more recent stuff; I enjoyed All The Pretty Horses, No Country For Old Men, Blood Meridian, The Road, and The Crossing. They were all enjoyable and engaging and so I picked this up and, though I finished it, found it kind of boring. The problem is, writing a character is not really McCarthy's forte; his protagonists are always, without exception, laconic badasses possessed of some primal wisdom and a troubled disposition beneath it all. I've enjoyed his descriptive prose, especially about the desert, enough to overlook this but here he decided to write a character study, which puts the whole thing on display. Without a plot to distract me I had to look at a McCarthy character full on, and it was surprisingly unsatisfying. Part of it is that we have no idea why Suttree does anything he does. He abandoned his wife and kids to hang out with drunks and lowlives because he....doesn't get along with his rich parents. Or something? Also, his uncle is a drunk and he had a stillborn twin brother. That last one really messes with him at one point for some reason. He's also the most dignified, rye-humored man alive, except when he's drunk. Women dig him and a high priced hooker makes him her kept man. He hangs out with and protects a dumb country kid he befriended in jail, for no reason we're ever shown. Some of the stories are interesting or humorous, but they don't really go anywhere. The writing is good but McCarthy hadn't really developed his own style at this point and it often comes off as derivative of other writers. At some points, when he just strings together sentence fragments for paragraphs at a time, I found myself wondering if James Joyce's estate was getting royalty checks. The Faulkner is pretty heavy in there too. Don't get me wrong, there are certainly worse writers to emulate, but it still doesn't work very well. Oh, and also, witchcraft really works in this world. I don't mind the supernatural in novels but it really felt out of place here. Three stars, I'd probably recommend either reading his other books or his influences before bothering with this.
Get out your Oxford dictionary. December 6, 2009
trainreader (Montclair, N.J.)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I say Oxford dictionary because the dictionary I usually rely on did not have a number of the words contained in "Sutree" which I not only did not know the meaning of but, often, did not even recognize. Look, I'll admit I need to look up maybe two or three words when I'm reading any typical novel. But a few times on every page? I'm pretty sure McCarthy simply made some of these words up. Still, this story of a moral intelligent drifter living a life of poverty near the bank of a river was compelling and memorable. McCarthy's goal is to portray a colorful cast of characters and, for the most part, he succeeds. The rawness of the conversational language seems even starker as compared to the flowery descriptive language, but sometimes it seems the author is simply showing off. However, McCarthy writes in an exceptionally unique voice.
I should also mention that some of the description of certain ethnicities, especially blacks, was borderline racist. I guess since we're talking about the great Cormac McCarthy though, I should give that a pass.
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