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Apr 26, 2011 · The Sisters Brothersو Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (2011) is a historical novel by Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt. In 1851, Eli and Charlie Sisters, a pair of assassins of minor repute, are hired by a wealthy businessman known only as "the Commodore" to travel from Oregon City to California in order to murder a gold rush prospector nam
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The Sisters Brothers is a 2011 Western novel by Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt.The darkly comic story takes place in Oregon and California in 1851. The narrator, Eli Sisters, and his brother Charlie are assassins tasked with killing Hermann Kermit Warm, an ingenious prospector who has been accused of stealing from the Sisters' fearsome boss, the Commodore.
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Feb 14, 2012 · “The brothers’ punchily poetic banter and the book’s bracing bursts of violence keep this campfire yarn pulled taut.” — The Onion AV Club “Funny and strange [and] oddly warm…you’ll find yourself ashamedly pulling for the brothers Sisters like you did for Jules and Vinnie in Pulp Fiction.” — Outside magazine
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Apr 26, 2011 · The Sisters Brothers is a hard book to describe. On the surface it is the story of Charlie and Eli Sisters, hired guns for the powerful and mysterious man known as the Commodore. At the start of the book, Charlie has just received their next assignment: to locate and murder Herman Kermitt Warm.
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Apr 26, 2011 · The Sisters Brothers. 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 ...
Aug 28, 2018 · 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 ...
Books. The Sisters Brothers. Patrick deWitt. House of Anansi, May 14, 2011 - Fiction - 336 pages. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and the Stephen Leacock Medal. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize.
