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   Jul 22, 2011 · July 22, 2011. It is 1851 in the Oregon Territory, and Charlie and Eli Sisters have been ordered by the Commodore to go to California and kill a man called Hermann Kermit Warm. They ride their...

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   Sep 14, 2018 · Anthony Lane reviews Jacques Audiard’s Western, starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix, and Paul Weitz’s Ann Patchett adaptation, starring Julianne Moore.

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   Is the Sisters Brothers a good book?

   • P atrick DeWitt's second novel, The Sisters Brothers, begins with a cruel image: a horse burning up in a fire, "his kicking, burning legs, his hot-popping eyeballs". If you don't care for that image, then you might not care for DeWitt's novel, especially as it is blurbed as "hilarious" and "relentlessly absorbing".

   The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt – review

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   Is 'the Sisters Brothers' a black comedy?

   • Eli shouts when he learns some trappers plan to kill him.) “The Sisters Brothers” could have been an unnerving black comedy, but its sketchiness and the inherent silliness of its McGuffin, the “formula,” finally sap its ability to unsettle us. John Vernon’s most recent novel is “Lucky Billy.”

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   How do the Sisters Brothers relate their odyssey?

   • The Sisters Brothers relates their odyssey and, like all odysseys, it is full of both strange adventures and revelations. Eli and Charlie are in the habit of killing people, and they are surrounded by killers.

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   What happens in Eli & Charlie Sisters?

   • The first time you see Eli and Charlie Sisters, they are raining down death in the night. It’s 1851, somewhere in the Oregon Territory, and the sky is as black as a bottomless well. Voices and gunfire puncture the gloom as Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) descend, entering a cabin and shooting dead one man after another.

   Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’

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   Apr 26, 2011 · 97,544 ratings9,958 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2011) 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.

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   May 1, 2011 · A Novel. Patrick deWitt. Ecco: 336 pp., $24.99. If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor, he might have concocted a story like Patrick deWitt’s bloody, darkly funny western “The Sisters...

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   Jul 15, 2011 · Patrick DeWitt has created a reluctant assassin on a wild west odyssey. Jane Smiley. Fri 15 Jul 2011 17.52 EDT. P atrick DeWitt's second novel, The Sisters Brothers, begins with a...

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   A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life. By Wilson Wong. Can You Recognize This Novel From a One-Line...