Suttree by McCarthy, Cormac - 1979

New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. No remainder mark. Jacket spine a trifle faded.

A classic work by one of the greatest living American novelists. Set in the 1950s, the novel focuses on Cornelius Suttree, an outcast living in Knoxville, and his strange circle of associates. McCarthy worked on the book on and off for over twenty years, mining his own experiences growing up and living in Tennessee. Very well received at its release, Nelson Algren declared Suttree "a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller... a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk... like a good, long scream in the ear." Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.