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Suttree
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Stain on the front cover which bleeds through to be faintly apparent on the front endpapers and slightly affecting bottom edge o/Near fine with a price of 12.95 on the front flap - since there is no evidence of damp stain on dust jacket I assume the jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394482131
- ISBN 13
- 9780394482132
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1979. Stated First Edition. Hard cover. Stain on the front cover which bleeds through to be faintly apparent on the front endpapers and slightly affecting bottom edge of first 108 pp. Faint red Random House stamp on bottom edge of text block./Near fine with a price of 12.95 on the front flap - since there is no evidence of damp stain on dust jacket I assume the jacket was supplied.. If you have a very good or better book to go with this jacket, it would be a great buy!
Synopsis
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.
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Reviews
On Feb 2 2024, a reader said:
Knoxville, Tennessee in the early 1950s serves as the main setting for Suttree. The main character, Cornelius Suttree, is a fisherman who resides on the river in a run-down houseboat. Having become estranged from his well-known family, he has turned away from the society they stand for in favor of a different reality where people lead unstable, violent, and frequently desperate lives. "McCarthy is a writer to he read, to be admired, and quite honestly- envied" (Ralph Ellison, 1994). I had also reviewed this book on shabd.in
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1544
- Title
- Suttree
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Stain on the front cover which bleeds through to be faintly apparent on the front endpapers and slightly affecting bottom edge o
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine with a price of 12.95 on the front flap - since there is no evidence of damp stain on dust jacket I assume the jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394482131
- ISBN 13
- 9780394482132
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
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