Suttree

‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair’ The Times Literary Supplement In a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River, Cornelius Suttree endures a solitary exile, skirting around the fringes of a Knoxville inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished. Suttree is the story of one man’s attempt to overcome the physical and human squalor surrounding him, and of the detachment and wry humour which enable him to survive dereliction with dignity.