The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt

SON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARING JAKE GYLENHAL, JOHN C. REILY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX

A BOKER PRIZE FINALIST

AND A BEST BOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly - Amazon - Hudson Booksellers - Washington Post

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.

DeWitt, Patrick: - Patrick deWitt is also the author of the Booker shortlisted novel The Sisters Brothers and Undermajordomo Minor. He was born in 1975 on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he resides with his wife and son. He has worked as a laborer, a clerk, a dishwasher, and a bartender.

SKU	CIN0062041266G
ISBN 13	9780062041265
ISBN 10	0062041266
Title	The Sisters Brothers
Author	Patrick Dewitt
Condition	Good
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2011-05-01
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2012, Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2012, Winner of Libris Awards (Fiction) 2012, Winner of Oregon Book Awards (Fiction) 2012, Winner of Governor General's Literary Awards (Fiction) 2011, Winner of Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2011, Commended for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2011, Short-listed for Man Booker Prize (Novel) 2011
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