Suttree

"Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein nigh draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did......more

like faulkner, except good.........more

This was my first foray into McCarthy, and what a foray it was. The prose hit me with a whallop--so dense and driving, a slow-moving ineluctable train of words that carries the reader to dark and squalid and even funny places as we follow Cornelius Suttree, a privileged son who's given it all up to......more

Cormac McCarthy is a connoisseur of words and the rhythms of speech. I can't think of anyone who writes like McCarthy (who recently died). He needs an indulgent reader, someone who is willing to give him free reign. Here's a quote. "He lived for another five hours and died sometime before daybreak u......more