{"product_id":"suttree-1","title":"Suttree","description":"In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair'' – Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1951. Cornelius Suttree lives alone, exiled on a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River. As we meet him, Suttree watches the police haul the body of a suicidal man from the water. Amongst the living, the river is home to hermits, sex workers, alcoholics – and a witch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConjuring James Joyce''s Ulysses, Suttree wanders the river with a detachment and wry humour, encountering a broad cast of humanity as he does – even as dereliction and destitution threaten the last of his remaining dignity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear'' – New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Cormac McCarthy:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power'' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence'' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51446815883611,"sku":"9781035039272","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/suttree-1","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}