The Sisters Brothers

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE SISTERS BROTHERS
"The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt is a gorgeous, wise, riveting work ot among other things, cowboy noir. Comic, too, but of a species that arrives bearing a scorpion's stinger. You smile, then you wince, then you turn the page to find out what happens next, happily disarmed all the while by the voice ofEU Sisters as he puzzles his way back to humanity. Honestly, I can't recall ever being this fond of a pair of psychopaths." —DAVID WRQBLEVfSKI,authoroiTheStoryofEdgarSawtelle
"A masterful, hilarious picaresque that keeps company with the best of Charles Portis and Mark Twain, TheSistersBrotbers is a relentlessly absorbing feat of novel-istic art." —WiELLS TOV/'ER, author ofEverythingRavaged, EverythingBumed
"^The Sisters Brothers is dark and funny, both ha-ha and strange, but it's a lot more, too—a lyrical meditation on work and love from a narrator who moves from thoughtful conviction to casual murder as seamlessly as this book flows... Tovább

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE SISTERS BROTHERS
"The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt is a gorgeous, wise, riveting work ot among other things, cowboy noir. Comic, too, but of a species that arrives bearing a scorpion's stinger. You smile, then you wince, then you turn the page to find out what happens next, happily disarmed all the while by the voice ofEU Sisters as he puzzles his way back to humanity. Honestly, I can't recall ever being this fond of a pair of psychopaths." —DAVID WRQBLEVfSKI,authoroiTheStoryofEdgarSawtelle
"A masterful, hilarious picaresque that keeps company with the best of Charles Portis and Mark Twain, TheSistersBrotbers is a relentlessly absorbing feat of novel-istic art." —WiELLS TOV/'ER, author ofEverythingRavaged, EverythingBumed
"^The Sisters Brothers is dark and funny, both ha-ha and strange, but it's a lot more, too—a lyrical meditation on work and love from a narrator who moves from thoughtful conviction to casual murder as seamlessly as this book flows over the page. You'll root for (and against) the Sisters brothers on their quest, and you'll love the characters you meet along the way. Patrick deWitt has concocted a winner here, his perfectly paced plot matched only by his narrator's often deUghtful observations." —T OM FRANKLIN, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
"At once dark and touching, TheSistersBrotbers has something on every page to make you laugh. Patrick deWitt has given us a gift, reimagining the Old West in a thoroughly original manner. Readers are aU the better for it."
—CHARLES BOCK, author oi Beautiful Children
"An instant classic. Thrilling, hilarious, touching, and unforgettable. The Sisters Brothers is the best Western I've read in years and further proof that deWitt is a writer we should all be very excited about."
—J 0 A T H A N E VIS 0 N, author oiWestofHere
"DeWitt has produced a genre-bending frontier saga that is exciting, funny, and, perhaps unexpectedly, moving." —Tubltshers Weekly (starred review)
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 i85-os frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.
PATRICK DEWITT is the author of the criticaUy acclaimed Ablutions.-NotesforaNo'vel. Born in British Columbia, he has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he currently resides with his wife and son.
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