San Antonio College Library

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.

Helen and Leo live together, two modern young women in thirties London--as more than friends--in a houseboat on the Thames. When Leo's teenage sister Elsie comes to stay, their cheerful Bohemian life is turned upside down. The handsome young doctor Elsie adores proceeds to chase after all three women. Leo's friendship with the man next door suddenly takes on erotic overtones. Long-quiet ghosts from her troubled past begin to stir. And before long,...