by Cormac McCarthy · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330306423
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«Suttree» is Cormac McCarthy's Southern novel, published by Pan Macmillan in paperback (471 pages, in English).
Cornelius Suttree lives apart from the world in a half-ruined houseboat on the Tennessee River, on the outskirts of Knoxville. Surrounded by outcasts, eccentrics and criminals, he retains his dignity and an ironic humor that allow him to withstand poverty and abandonment. A semi-biographical story about survival on the margins.
The novel won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was originally published in 1979.
For readers of Southern fiction and Cormac McCarthy's narrative, with marginal characters and a tone between humor and melancholy.
Cormac McCarthy was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is characterized by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists.
