num_pages: 471
description: Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Cornelius Suttree lives alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River. Despite this, he manages to rise above the physical and human squalor of the surrounding community, surviving the dereliction and destitution with dignity.
language: English
title: Suttree
titlecomplete: Suttree
characters: Gene Harrogate, Cornelius Suttree
genres: Fiction, American, Gothic, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 22468
places: Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Picador