Suttree.
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
Suttree.
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FOURTH NOVEL: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "WITH LOVE CORMAC"
New York: Random House, 1979.
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First edition of the author’s fourth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original half cloth. Some light fading to the extremities as usual, an excellent copy in a supplied fine first issue dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “For Bill + Ann with love Cormac.” The recipients were Bill and Nee Kidwell, close friends and neighbors of McCarthy. Laid in is a copy of a letter explaining Kidwell’s relationship with Cormac McCarthy. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Suttree is the fourth of McCarthy's novels to be published, but he had started it well before his first, The Orchard Keeper, appeared in 1965 to great critical acclaim. The principle scene of Suttree is Knoxville, Tennessee in the early 1950's. The central figure, Cornelius Suttree, is a fisherman who lives in a dilapidated houseboat on the river. Estranged from his prominent family, he has withdrawn from the society they represent, choosing instead a different world inhabited by people who live precarious, desperate, often violent lives. "McCarthy is a writer to he read, to be admired, and quite honestly- envied" (Ralph Ellison).
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