Suttree

novel by McCarthy

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discussed in biography

  • Cormac McCarthy
    In Cormac McCarthy: A wandering writer’s life

    …man’s descent into depravity, and Suttree (1979), about a man who ekes out a living from a river in Knoxville that symbolizes the elemental forces of life, nature, and death. The latter novel is regarded as McCarthy’s most autobiographical work: its protagonist scorns a comfortable middle-class lifestyle to live among…

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