false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413102m/394469.jpg 394469 14 By the author of <i>Blood Meridian</i> and <i>All the Pretty Horses</i>, <i>Suttree</i> is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity. 1196119 book 1979 Suttree total:1677|5:802|4:520|3:265|2:75|1:15| 1677 7050 2930 228 5 7 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 08:54:14 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 06 13:36:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 true false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 23 20:41:05 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 13 14:29:12 -0800 2009 1 Roger Ebert about the language McCarthy uses and it's brilliance. It's his masterpiece.

Well I can definitely say the Ebert was right about the language. Unless you're a lit major, a crossword junkie, or scrabble master be sure to hav...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Nov 15 22:21:51 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 19 08:23:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Sep 07 07:20:13 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 05 13:40:31 -0800 2008 If for ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun May 27 06:49:35 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 22:59:50 -0700 2007
"Her hot spiced tongue flat in his mouth and her hands all over him like the very witch of fuck."

]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 13:25:44 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 13:53:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 24 13:33:20 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 13:33:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 18:07:58 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 30 18:38:42 -0700 2008 Suttree and I feel exhausted. Maybe I should not use the word “finished” at all, as I feel that I should go back to it once again, slower this time. Actually I have to confess that I have hushed through the last third of this book, because the universe Cormac McCa...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 16:23:59 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 09:59:04 -0700 2008 can choose your friends...

The college educated and handsome Suttree has issues and torments of his own but is generally a kind hearted ascetic who, largely turning his back on his well-to-do family, acts as straight man to assorted looney eccentrics in Knoxville, Tennessee in the 195...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 14:16:31 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 04:11:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 14:20:25 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 12:33:06 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 05:33:54 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 05:53:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 true false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 05:25:47 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 07:39:57 -0700 2009 1 This past week, I finished my three summers-long journey through the McCarthy oeuvre with his plays/screenplays and this hulking beast. After trudging, compelled as though bound and roughly led with a rope, through Bolaño's mouth-gapingly tremendous 2666, I worried about how McCarthy would look th...

more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 11:08:43 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 11:09:57 -0800 2008 Once...so far The Road. McCarthy has populated it with as many beguiling and vivid expressions as he has characters, and I wanted to take my time with them all. Usually, I'm quite an impatient reader, always eager...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 14:58:20 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 11:28:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 14 10:22:38 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 06:19:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 20:42:22 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 07:02:33 -0800 2007 1)"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse."
2)If you fuck every pumpkin in a pumpkin field you're liable to go to the county workhouse. I don't reckon there is one of them here, so I also reckon it's just about...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 10 11:19:42 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 11:37:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 12:42:29 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 12:54:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 04:56:24 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 05:01:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=394469