Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours were the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men - the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of eighty-nine.
Suttree marks McCarthy's closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books -- Stanley Booth, journalist and author of <i> the True Adventures of the Rolling Stones <I> The book comes at us like a horrifying flood. The language licks, batters, wounds - a poetic, troubled rush of debris . . . Cormac McCarthy has little mercy to spare, for his characters or himself. His text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots . . . Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear -- Jerome Charyn * New York Times * A freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor * Times Literary Supplement *