Bibliographical Description
86.10.W027: McCarthy – Suttree
[decorative rule 10.5 cm] | SUTTREE | [decorative rule 10.5 cm] | Cormac McCarthy | [decorative rule 10.5 cm] | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, October 1986
240 leaves, pp. [6] 1–3 4-5 6–7 8-29 30 31-35 36 37-62 63 64-86 87 88-90 91 92-106 107 108-118 119 120-136 137 138-147 148 149-161 162 163-179 180 181-182 183 184-194 195 196-206 207 208-219 220 221-240 241 242-252 253 254-255 256 257-258 259 260-277 278 279-282 283 284-297 298 299-305 306 307-363 364 365-373 374 375-378 379 380-415 416 417-420 421 422 423 424-430 431 432-434 435 436-439 440 441-447 448 449-471 [3]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “BOOKS BY CORMAC MCCARTHY”, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a acknowledgements, π3b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-471 Suttree, χ1b about the author, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Mark Morrow and the University of Georgia Press.
Copyright: ©1979. ISBN: 0-394-74145-5. Price: $6.95. Suttree was first published by Random House, 1979.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) Perhaps the closest we have to a genuine heir to the Faulknerian tradition…his novels have a stark, mythic quality that is very much their own. – The Washington Post
- Reads like a doomed Huckleberry Finn. – The New York Times Book Review
- All of McCarthy’s books present the reviewer with the same welcome difficulty. They are so good that one can hardly say how good they really are….Suttree may be his magnum opus. Its protagonist, Cornelius Suttree, has forsaken his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat among the inhabitants of the demimonde along the banks of the Tennessee River. His associates are mostly criminals of one sort or another, and Suttree is, to say the least, estranged from what might be called normal society. But he is so involved with life (and it with him) that when in the end he takes his leave, the reader’s heart goes with him. Suttree is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy’s books…which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature. – Stanley Booth, St. Petersburg Times
- Brilliant and powerful. – Shelby Foote
- Yes, there are a lot of dead people in Suttree, but then people do die, especially poor and stubborn and violent ones. And Southerners, including Southern writers, don’t believe in abandoning their dead. If you read Mr. McCarthy’s book, you won’t escape his dead either. They will haunt you, which is what they are supposed to do. – Anatole Broyard, The New York Times