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{{Short description|1979 novel by Cormac McCarthy}}
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| name              = Suttree
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| image             = Suttree - Cormac McCarthy.jpg
| caption           = First edition
| author            = [[Cormac McCarthy]]
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| country           = United States
| language          = English
| series            = 
| genre             = [[Autofiction]]
| publisher         = [[Random House]]
| release_date      = May 1979
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| media_type        = Print ([[hardcover]])
| pages             = 471 (paperback)
| isbn              = 0-679-73632-8
| oclc              = 26322333
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| set_in            = 1950s [[Knoxville, Tennessee]]
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'''''Suttree''''' is a semi-[[autobiographical novel]] by [[Cormac McCarthy]], published in 1979.  Set in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], over a four-year period starting in 1950, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a [[fisherman]] on the [[Tennessee River]].

The novel has a fragmented structure with many [[flashback (narrative)|flashbacks]] and shifts in [[grammatical person]]. ''Suttree'' has been compared<ref>{{Cite web|title=The New York Times: Book Review Search Article|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/mccarthy-venom.html|access-date=2021-05-11|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> to [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' and [[John Steinbeck]]'s ''[[Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row]]'', and called "a doomed ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|Huckleberry Finn]]''"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/mccarthy-suttree.html|title=Suttree|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> by [[Jerome Charyn]]. ''Suttree'' was written over a 20-year span<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/mccarthypapers.html|title=Cormac McCarthy Papers|date=July 7, 2020|website=www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu}}</ref> and is a departure from McCarthy's previous novels, being much longer, more sprawling in structure, and perhaps his most humorous.