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Being a native East Tennessean, I’ve always had a slight preference for Cormac’s Appalachian novels, perhaps in part because the people (at least some of them…)
by cbfrench 3y ago
Being a native East Tennessean, I’ve always had a slight preference for Cormac’s Appalachian novels, perhaps in part because the people (at least some of them…) and locations seemed familiar to me. What a loss.
I was pleased to see that the local NBC affiliate had made the announcement of his passing[0] the top story, but I was especially gratified that it describes him as “the author of Suttree, The Road, Child of God and several other novels.” It’s probably the only obit that will lead the list of novels with Suttree and relegate Blood Meridian to “several other novels,” haha.
[0] https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/cormac-mccarthy-dies-at-89-years-old/51-f5009113-5f6b-4507-993a-4d89667725b6 https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/cormac-mccarthy-dies...
- turrican 3y agoI wasn’t aware he wrote books based in Appalachia! Do you have a recommendation?
- colinflane 3y agoSuttree is maybe my favorite of all his novels. If, as others here have suggested, you regard Blood Meridian an epic. Suttree is a picaresque, like reading Pickwick Papers on salvia.
- cbfrench 3y agoHis first four novels—The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, and Suttree—are all set in East TN. I’d highly recommend Suttree. It’s superb. Child of God is also quite good, especially for a novel about a necrophiliac serial killer. ;)
- whiddershins 3y agoSuttree is a masterpiece.
- kamranjon 3y agoIt is the best book I have ever read and I didn't think I would feel that way so firmly about a book so late in life. I read it last year and it is unequivocally a masterpiece for me.