McCARTHY, Cormac.

£9,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Suttree. First edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For John & Ann, Best wishes, Cormac McCarthy". The recipients were the American journalist John Egerton (1935-2013), who wrote extensively on Southern culture, and his wife Ann Bleidt.Based on the author's experience growing up in Tennessee, the novel took McCarthy 20 years to write. It was well-received on publication, the Times Literary Supplement comparing McCarthy to William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, and the New York Times reviewing the novel as "a book with rude, startling power... like a good, long scream in the ear". McCarthy won the MacArthur Fellowship shortly after publication.

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