From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road here 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. Look for Cormac McCarthy s latest bestselling novels The Passenger and Stella Maris.