{"product_id":"suttree-by-cormac-mccarthy-9781035039272","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.\n\n'Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair' - Times Literary Supplement\n\n1951. 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.\n\nConjuring 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.\n\n'Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear' - New York Times\n\n\nPraise for Cormac McCarthy:\n\n'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\n\n'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\n\n'[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":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288828002540,"sku":"9781035039272","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13913483482556.jpg?v=1770575536","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/suttree-by-cormac-mccarthy-9781035039272","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}