Nina Martyris describes the latest addition to McCarthyinalia in Knoxville, Tennessee, the setting of much of McCarthy’s fiction: Suttree’s High Gravity Beer Tavern. Matt and Anne have also been asked, hopefully, if their menu has a melon cocktail. The disappointing answer is no. The melon has an exalted place in the novel because of a ridiculous but tender scene in which a young botanical pervert call Gene Harrogate steals into the fields by nights, shucks off his overalls, and begins to mount melons in the soil.
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Nina Martyris describes the latest addition to McCarthyinalia in Knoxville, Tennessee, the setting of much of McCarthy’s fiction: Suttree’s High Gravity Beer Tavern.

Matt and Anne have also been asked, hopefully, if their menu has a melon cocktail. The disappointing answer is no. The melon has an exalted place in the novel because of a ridiculous but tender scene in which a young botanical pervert call Gene Harrogate steals into the fields by nights, shucks off his overalls, and begins to mount melons in the soil.