Cormac McCarthy: Passages describing Knoxville
Cormac McCarthy lived in Knoxville, Tennessee for the better part of his young life. He took great interest there in the seedier side of Knoxville, and his fourth novel, Suttree, takes place almost entirely in downtown Knoxville in the early 1950s. Famous for his attention to detail in his description of setting and landscape, McCarthy brings life to the darker sides of Knoxville in this famous novel, as well as in other of his works.
“...now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.”
— Cormac McCarthy [From Suttree] —
