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Cormac McCarthy is a modern American classic of the highest caliber, winner of the MacArthur Fellowship "For Genius", a master of complex experiences and non-standard syntax, well known to readers for his novels "No Country for Old Men" (the Coen brothers' film based on this book won four Oscars) and "The Road" (received the Pulitzer Prize and was also filmed), "The Border Trilogy" (the first novel of which, "Horses, Horses...", won the US National Book Award and was transferred to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz) and "Blood Meridian". A special place in his legacy is occupied by the epic tragicomedy Suttree, “an unthinkable – and yet completely organic – combination of James Joyce’s Ulysses and John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row” (New York Times), “almost an autobiography” of the famous recluse.
So, the place of action is Knoxville, Tennessee; it is the 1950s. Cornelius Suttree, the scion of a wealthy family, for unknown reasons abandoned his wife and young son and settled in a houseboat on the river. He eats fish that he caught himself, drinks everything that burns (and that his friends bring), spends his life “in the company of thieves, outcasts, scoundrels… idlers, boors, punks, murderers, gamblers, pimps… blockheads, sluts… and other assorted and malicious scoundrels,” but does not lose his human dignity and looks at the world with detached spontaneity.
So, the place of action is Knoxville, Tennessee; it is the 1950s. Cornelius Suttree, the scion of a wealthy family, for unknown reasons abandoned his wife and young son and settled in a houseboat on the river. He eats fish that he caught himself, drinks everything that burns (and that his friends bring), spends his life “in the company of thieves, outcasts, scoundrels… idlers, boors, punks, murderers, gamblers, pimps… blockheads, sluts… and other assorted and malicious scoundrels,” but does not lose his human dignity and looks at the world with detached spontaneity.
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- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Big Book