num_pages: 480
description: By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses , Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville.  Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Suttree
titlecomplete: Suttree (Modern Library)
characters: Gene Harrogate, Cornelius Suttree
genres: American, Southern, Literary Fiction, Novels, Southern Gothic, Gothic, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 22463
places: Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Modern Library