TY - BOOK AU - McCarthy,Cormac TI - Suttree / SN - 9780330511230 (pbk.) U1 - 813.54 MCC 23 PY - 1989/// CY - London PB - Picador, KW - River life KW - Fiction KW - Tennessee (State) KW - Friendship KW - Poverty KW - Southern States KW - America KW - American literature KW - 20th century N2 - Suttree is a compelling, semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, which has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity ER -