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The Sisters Brothers

The Sisters Brothers

by Patrick deWitt
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/10/2011

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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride - fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to Sacramento. But their prey isn't an easy mark, the road is long and bloody, and somewhere along the path Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for. The Sisters Brothers pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable ribald tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of 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.
ISBN:
9781847086006
9781847086006
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-10-2011
Publisher:
Granta Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
178x111x21mm
Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt is the author of The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General 's Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize.

He also is the author of Ablutions, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and Undermajordomo Minor. The Sisters Brothers is being adapted for film by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), to star Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, for release in 2018. Born in British Columbia, Canada, deWitt now resides in Portland, Oregon.

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