Suttree

Suttree marks McCarthy's closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his booksStanley Booth, journalist and author of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

The book comes at us like a horrifying flood. The language licks, batters, wounds - a poetic, troubled rush of debris . . . Cormac McCarthy has little mercy to spare, for his characters or himself. His text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots . . . Suttree is like a good, long scream in the earJerome Charyn, New York Times

Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’ConnorTimes Literary Supplement