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This is a summary of the book, Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy. The book follows the life of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Suttree remains on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--and rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
By the author of
Blood Meridian and
All the Pretty Horses,
Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville.Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
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