Suttree
New York: Random House, 1979. First edition, first printing. Publisher's quarter black cloth over yellow boards in Jack Ribik dust jacket ($12.95). Remainder stamp to bottom edge, else fine in very near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover. Item #236626
Widely regarded as his most expansive and intimate novel, Suttree is a Southern Gothic masterwork steeped in the grotesque, comic, and redemptive. It has drawn comparisons to Joyce's Ulysses in its episodic sprawl and to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying in its rendering of domestic alienation and rural fatalism. Written over the course of two decades, it stands as the pivotal work between McCarthy’s early Southern novels and his later mythic epics. Suttree enriches the Southern Gothic tradition by giving voice to the lives that most literature ignores, while eschewing sentimentality. Lyrical and harrowing, its dense, poetic language conjures a world of decay and dignity.
Price: $2,500.00