McCARTHY, Cormac (1933-2023). Suttree. New York: Random House, 1979.

8vo. Original black cloth-backed boards gilt; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some light surface wear).

FIRST EDITION of McCarthy's semi-autobiographical novel. Written in a fragmented structure, McCarthy showcases the depths of his characters' psyches and reveals their complexities and contradictions that define them, much similar to Joyce's Ulysses and Steinbeck's Cannery Row. Its numerous flashbacks and shifts in perspective, serve to mirror the protagonist Cornelius Suttree's own fragmented sense of self and his struggle to come to terms with his affluent past as he begins his new life in a solitary existence as a fisherman on the Tennessee River.