Toronto, Ontario: House of Anansi Press 978-0-88784-289-4 [978-0-88784-289-4] 2011. (hardcover) 328pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Very clean, tight, solid copy. DJ has the tiniest amount of buckling at the top edge of spine, but is otherwise without marks or wear. Price not clipped. An odyssey of violence, lust, humour, hangover and Western adventure in collectable, pristine condition. About this book, if you pause at the cost... Winner: Governor General's Literary Award 2011; Winner: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2011; Winner: Stephen Leacock Memorial Award 2012; Winner: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award: Fiction Book of the Year; Winner: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award 2012; Winner: Oregon Book Awards: Ken Kesey Award for Fiction 2012; Winner: the Prix des libraires du Quebec 2013; Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011; Short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2011; Short listed for Amazon Canadian Fiction 2011; Selected for the Publisher's Weekly Best Book 2011; Selected for the Globe and Mail Top 100 Books 2011; Selected for the Quill and Quire Book of the Year 2011; Selected for the Toronto Star Reviewers' Top 100 Books 2011; Selected for MacLean's Magazine Best Books 2011; Short-listed for the CBC Bookie Awards: Literary Fiction 2012; Short-listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2012; Short-listed for the CBA Libris Award: Author of the Year 2012; Long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013; Short-listed for the Google Play International Author of the Year 2012..

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt's dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlie 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.

Reviews

On Aug 19 2011, West of Eden Books said:

Narrated by the stouter half of a pair of old west hitmen, Patrick deWitt's The Sister's Brothers takes us on a journey from Oregon to California during the gold rush, ostensibly to complete an assignment from their shadowy boss, but really in search of the dual protagonist's futures.Eli Sisters is becoming ambivalent about his career path and longs to settle down, Charlie prefers to drink and womanize as always but this particular assignment will change them both permanently.A new western novel full of the taste of dust and grit, plenty of pain and blood, and large doses of humor and human emotion, The Sister's Brothers delivers on all levels with rich and complex characters, a plot full of twists and a conclusion that takes both the characters and the reader by surprise.

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Bookseller: Spafford Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 122374
Title: The Sisters Brothers
Author: DeWitt, Patrick
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0887842895
ISBN 13: 9780887842894
Publisher: House of Anansi Press 978-0-88784-289-4
Place of Publication: Toronto, Ontario
This edition first published: 2011
Keywords: Literature - Canadian, Canadiana, Literature, Westerns, Writers - Canadian

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