He is the author of The Kid, Skipping Toward Gomorrah and The Commitment, which was published in October 2005.

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It is harder to get exercised about slouching towards Gomorrah when the slouching seems to be going in the opposite direction.

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Yet Sodom and Gomorrah also has a more hopeful story to tell.

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But it soon becomes clear that they have a darker mission: to wreak vengeance on two sinful cities, unnamed in the opera but Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible.

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Despite its reputation as the global capital of Mammon, and despite its image in much of America as a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, New York remains a remarkably religious city.

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The origin of the road's regal name is said to stem back to a league of kings who advanced this way to wage war with the wicked Cities of the Plains -- the Old Testament cities of Sodom and Gomorrah -- which are thought to have lain along the Dead Sea.

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