Mysterious Book Report No. 78 – Sutton

By |2016-03-21T19:26:34+00:00March 21st, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Sutton by J.R. Moehringer Hyperion, $27.99, 334 pages, ISBN 978-1-4013-2314-1 The novel is titled simply Sutton, by Pulitzer Prize winning author J.R. Moehringer.  Some astute readers will no doubt recognize the name from his best selling memoir, The Tender Bar. On Christmas Eve 1969, after seventeen years of incarceration, Willie Sutton is released from the state penitentiary at Attica, New York.  He meets two people from one of New