The Sisters Brothers
by deWitt, Patrick
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Advance Reading Copy from uncorrected proofs of the First Canadian edition. Signed by Patrick deWitt on title page. Glossy white card covers with red and black front cover image. An unread copy marred only by a very tiny bump to bottom front corner and a very slight waviness to bottom edge of front cover. 325 pages.
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
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Ted Brown (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 288515
- Title
- The Sisters Brothers
- Author
- deWitt, Patrick
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Anansi
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2011
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- MODERN FIRST EDITIONS; Westerns;
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