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Suttree
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394482131
- ISBN 13
- 9780394482132
- Seller
-
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Beautiful copy of book and dust jacket with a fine black and yellow slipcase. Three tiny tan dots on front free endpaper. Novel set in Knoxville in 1950s
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
- Old Algonquin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15617
- Title
- Suttree
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394482131
- ISBN 13
- 9780394482132
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- modern firsts, collectible fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction & Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Algonquin Books
Biblio member since 2006
Arvada, Colorado
About Old Algonquin Books
Old Algonquin Books. owned by John and Helen Dunning, was an open store in Denver from 1984-1994. and has been an online business since then. Member: Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA).All books with dust jackets have removable mylar covers on the jackets unless otherwise noted. First edition also means first printing unless otherwise noted.
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