Suttree (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: 1951-1955
- Setting: Knoxville, Tennessee, and the surrounding area
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Homelessness or homeless people, Friendship, Robbery or robbers, Tennessee, Isolation
- Locales: Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Characters Discussed
Cornelius Suttree, called Buddy by his family, Sut by his friends, and Youngblood by Abednego Jones. He is an intelligent and well-educated man of approximately thirty who, for reasons never explicitly divulged, has left his wife and child and gone to live in a houseboat moored to the banks of the Tennessee River. Born with a dead identical twin, Suttree suffers from a sort of double vision: He lives half in this world and half in the next, and he views each from the perspective of the other. He makes a meager living by fishing and spends the rest of his...
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