Editing Suttree (section)

==Reception==
Novelist [[Nelson Algren]] argued that the novel was "a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller."<ref>In ''Chicago Tribune Book World'', January 28, 1979.</ref> Reviews by writers and literary critics such as [[Anatole Broyard]],<ref>''New York Times'', January 20, 1979</ref> [[Jerome Charyn]],<ref>''New York Times'', February 18, 1979</ref> [[Guy Davenport]],<ref>''National Review'', March 16, 1979</ref> and [[Shelby Foote]]<ref>''Memphis Press-Scimitar'', February 17, 1979</ref> were followed by the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]'' review which saw the novel as "[[William Faulkner|Faulknerian]] in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of [[Flannery O'Connor]]."<ref>Hislop, Andrew, ''TLS'', no. 4490 (21–27 April 1989), p. 436.</ref> The profile writer and music journalist [[Stanley Booth]] observed that ''Suttree'' was "probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy's books...which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature."<ref>Backcover blurb of 1979 USA first edition.</ref> Late in life, film critic [[Roger Ebert]] wrote, "I began to live through this desperate man's sad life."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |title=I think I'm musing my mind |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/i-think-im-musing-my-mind |date=24 October 2008}}</ref>