Suttree

471 pages. "By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there -- a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters -- he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity."