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| Original Title: | The Sisters Brothers |
| ISBN: | 0062041266 (ISBN13: 9780062041265) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Eli Sisters, Charlie Sisters, Hermann Kermit Warm, Commodore, Henry Morris, Mayfield, Dr. Reginald Watts, Dr. Crane |
| Setting: | Oregon(United States) California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2011), Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2012), Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal (2012), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2011), Governor General's |
| Literary Awards: | / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2011) Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book (2012), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2012), Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (2013), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2011), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2012), Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2011), The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2012) |
Patrick deWitt
Hardcover | Pages: 328 pages Rating: 3.85 | 76866 Users | 8684 Reviews
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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for. With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters - losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life - and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West, and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.
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| Title | : | The Sisters Brothers |
| Author | : | Patrick deWitt |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 328 pages |
| Published | : | April 26th 2011 by Ecco |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Westerns. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Humor. Adventure |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 76866 Users | 8684 ReviewsAssessment Based On Books The Sisters Brothers
SatiricalThe Sisters Brothers is an exceptional novel that is absorbing and delightfully original. While its a traditional Western with cowboys and gold-mining, it feels like a retelling with a modern atmosphere. The writing style is lyrical and the dialogue flows so effortlessly with its satirical interweaving of humour, brotherhood, loneliness, intrigue and murder. The two Sisters brothers, Charlie and Eli are hitmen for the Commodore, who has contracted them to assassinate Hermann KermitA-yep. The Western is dead. Yeah, I'm happy too, because I love stories about the bloody history of the not-so-new world. As much as I love the great Western classics, their time is up. The Western has carried a lot of negative shit in its saddle-bags, shit that needs to be buried with it. The Western began as Historical Fiction, obviously, but it's popularity soon made it a genre all it's own, one especially overloaded with clichés and predictability. It started selling myths as political
This rating is purely for the audiobook publisher, which I would've given negative stars if I could have. I didn't finish this book -- how can an audiobook publisher sell in good conscience an audiobook with only one track to a cd?!
This book has the coolest cover ever. Whats great, though, is that the coolness doesnt end there.Charlie and Eli sisters are Gold Rushera contract killers. Theyre hired for what Eli hopes to be their last job, as hed much prefer to hang his holster and settle down with a nice girlor failing that, the first trollop that crosses his path. It makes no difference to him, really (dude is such a sweetheart). Charlie, on the other hand, is the less sensitive one. Itd be tougher to convince him to make
What the....really not sure what I just read. Yippie-yi-yo-kaye?Like the *cover it's edgy, aptly tagged as 'cowboy noir'. Avoid it if youre looking for a traditional western, no white hats, no riding happily off into the sunset. Same thing if you look for nice characters to bond with. A couple of hired guns Eli and brother Charlie Sisters arent particularly likeable unless you have a soft spot for psychopaths, Elis border-line and brother Charlie full-blown. Hey, they had a tough childhood. Read
My original review may still be missing...but this but this book is a $1.99 Kindle special today. It's TERRIFIC.... If this historical FUN fiction... about two brothers has been on readers TBR list -- this is a great price.I remember saying in my "lost review". It was the best 'dude' book I had read. And ... yep... still holds. Great 'dude' book that any female will adore. I was 'liking' a new friends review on this book --and notice my review was missing in action (Iris??)....a Standing joke
FRICKIN AWESOME!!!!!The Best **DUDE** book 'ever' My 'girlie' friends might even enjoy this whimsical-wonderful-change-of-pace!!!
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