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Book Review: Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy
Dec. 19th, 2015 01:25 pmTom Sawyer for the damned, or Ulysses in Tennessee.
Vintage International, 1979, 471 pages
( The very witch of fuck. )
Verdict: Cormac McCarthy is an acquired taste that doesn't take much for me to get too much of. I loved Blood Meridian and hated The Road, and Suttree stands somewhere in the middle, but if you like thick, fetid Southern gothic fiction, like Faulkner with more melon-fucking and pig-killing, then you will probably like this book. 7/10.
Also by Cormac McCarthy: My reviews of Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West, No Country for Old Men, and The Road.
My complete list of book reviews.
Vintage International, 1979, 471 pages
No discussion of great modern authors is complete without mention of Cormac McCarthy, whose rare and blazing talent makes his every work a true literary event. A grand addition to the American literary canon, Suttree introduces readers to Cornelius Suttree, a man who abandons his affluent family to live among a dissolute array of vagabonds along the Tennessee river.
( The very witch of fuck. )
Verdict: Cormac McCarthy is an acquired taste that doesn't take much for me to get too much of. I loved Blood Meridian and hated The Road, and Suttree stands somewhere in the middle, but if you like thick, fetid Southern gothic fiction, like Faulkner with more melon-fucking and pig-killing, then you will probably like this book. 7/10.
Also by Cormac McCarthy: My reviews of Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West, No Country for Old Men, and The Road.
My complete list of book reviews.
