Cormac McCarthy is a modern American classic of the main caliber. MacArthur Fellowship for Genius , master of complex experiences and non-standard syntax , well-known to our reader novels "Old people do not belong here" (the film of the Coen brothers from this book received four "Oscars") and "Road" (received the Pulitzer Prize and was also filmed) The Frontier Trilogy (first novel ,) "Horses, Horses … Won the US National Book Award and was moved to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz) and "Blood Meridian" . A special place in his legacy is the epic tragicomedy "Suttry" - "unthinkable - and moreover quite organic - a combination of "Ulysses" by James Joyce and "Canned Series" by John Steinbeck (New York Times), "practically an autobiography" of the famous recluse .. So, the scene is Knoxville, Tennessee; in the yard of the 1950s. Cornelius Sattri, the offspring of a wealthy family, abandoned his wife and young son for unknown reasons and settled in a floating house on the river. He eats fish, which he himself caught, drinks everything that burns (and what friends bring), spends his life “in the company of thieves, outcasts, scoundrels … slackers, rudes, pentyuhs, murderers, players, pimps … , marovozov …, …, …, …, …, …, …, …, …, , …, , …, , … and other diverse and malicious miscreants", but does not lose human dignity and looks at the world with detached immediacy. For the first time in Russian!Used foul language.