About the book: 2014 / Cormac McCarthy is a modern American classic of the main caliber, laureate of the MacArthur Fellowship "For Genius", a master of complex experiences and non-standard syntax, well known to our readers with the novels “No Country for Old Men” (the Coen brothers’ film based on this book won four Oscars), “The Road” (received a Pulitzer Prize and was also filmed) and “Blood Meridian” (“a kind of mixture of Dante’s “Inferno”, “ “The Iliad” and “Moby Dick”, in the words of Booker laureate John Banville). And for the first time in Russian, the novel “Sodom and Gomorrah: The Cities of This Neighborhood” is published - the third book of the so-called “Border Trilogy”, which began with the novel “Horses, Horses...” (received the US National Book Award and was transferred to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz) and continued with the novel “Beyond the Line.” Here the paths of John-Grady Cole and Billy Parham, the heroes of the two previous books, converge. John-Grady, an excellent horseman and constant romantic, wants to save the young prostitute Magdalena - take her away from Mexico and make her his wife. Billy, who tried his best to dissuade his friend from this adventure, still agrees to help him…