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Suttree

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10 December 2010
576 pages
9780330474900
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Suttree marks McCarthy's closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books
The book comes at us like a horrifying flood. The language licks, batters, wounds - a poetic, troubled rush of debris . . . Cormac McCarthy has little mercy to spare, for his characters or himself. His text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots . . . Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear
Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor