12-30-2018, 01:48 PM
(11-16-2018, 06:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Just ordered "Suttree" from Amazon.
Set in Knoxville, so I figured I had to give it a chance.
So I finished this book and it was excellent. McCarthy has a very complex style but I really enjoy it. "Suttree" dealt with a lot of hardships and pathos, but it also had some very funny characters and situations.
It was also interesting to read a book set in a town I know so well. I recognized all the landmarks he mentioned in Knoxville and all the surrounding towns. One thing that fascinated me was that Suttree hung with a group from a poor part of Knoxville called "McAnally"and I had never heard of that neighborhood. I thought McCarthy had made it up, but the book was set in the early 1950's and at the end that neighborhood was razed in order to build the new highways (I-75, I-40) that cut through the city.
I have already ordered "All the Pretty Horses". I doubt I will read "The Road" because it sound more relentlessly depressing like "Blood Meridian".
