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Suttree (Modern Library) Hardcover - 2002
by McCarthy, Cormac
About this book
Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1979. Set in 1951 in Knoxville, Tennessee, 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 to James Joyce's Ulysses, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
The novel took McCarthy 20 years to write, and he was 46 when it was published in 1979.
The novel took McCarthy 20 years to write, and he was 46 when it was published in 1979.
First Edition Identification
Random House published the first edition of Suttree in 1979. The front flap has a price of $12.95, and 'First Edition' is stated on the copyright page along with a number line of "24689753". The back of the dust jacket has a full author photo with credit on the bottom left and an ISBN on the bottom right.
Details
- Title Suttree (Modern Library)
- Author McCarthy, Cormac
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 480
- Publisher Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002
- ISBN 9780679642657