num_pages: 471
description: This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity.
language: English
title: Suttree
titlecomplete: Suttree
characters: Cornelius Suttree, Gene Harrogate
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Southern Gothic, Gothic, Southern, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 22464
places: Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Vintage International