Patrick deWitt
Hardcover | Pages: 328 pages Rating: 3.85 | 76866 Users | 8684 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Sisters Brothers |
| Author | : | Patrick deWitt |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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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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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| 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) |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 76866 Users | 8684 ReviewsCritique Appertaining To Books The Sisters Brothers
Great read, I love it...What a rollicking adventure. A great Western with amazing dialogue and narration. The ending falters but who cares? I was absolutely absorbed in this novel. Read it in a few hours. Loved it.
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
This was a strange, quirky and oddly captivating book that I simply could not put down.Eli and Charlie Sisters are not only brothers, but they are assassins put to the task of killing Hermann Kermit Warm. It seems that Mr. Warm, who by all accounts is a likable fellow, has stolen something from the Commodore, the fearsome and loathsome employer of the Sisters brothers.The year is 1851 ant the two brothers make their way through Oregon and California on the hunt for Mr. Warm. Along the way they
Update on the movie! Dont watch the movie, read the book. Unfortunately, it did not have any of the atmosphere of deWitts novel. The appeal of the novel is in the voice of the narrator which could not be captured on the screen. Review:Not your classic western novel. Great name, wonderful cover, lovely content, amazing storytelling. Shortlisted for the Booker prize 2011.I was watching a western comedy with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson when I thought that I should read a proper western novel at
The Sisters Brothersو Patrick deWittThe Sisters Brothers (2011) is a historical novel by Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt. In 1851, Eli and Charlie Sisters, a pair of assassins of minor repute, are hired by a wealthy businessman known only as "the Commodore" to travel from Oregon City to California in order to murder a gold rush prospector named Hermann Kermit Warm, who is described to them as a "thief". Hard-nosed, plainspoken Charlie, more impulsive and aggressive than his younger brother
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