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The Sisters Brothers

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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 Orego...more

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Published April 26th 2011 by Ecco

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Jul 05, 2012 Jason rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: for-kindle, 2012, reviewed

This book has the coolest cover ever. What’s great, though, is that the coolness doesn’t end there.

Charlie and Eli sisters are Gold Rush–era contract killers. They’re hired for what Eli hopes to be their last job, as he’d much prefer to hang his holster and settle down with a nice girl—or failing that, the first trollop that crosses his path. It makes no difference to him, really (dude is such a sweetheart). Charlie, on the other hand, is the less sensitive one. It’d be tougher to convince him t...more

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Apr 30, 2013 Richard rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This ho-hum review of a ho-hum book got tricked up a bit and stuffed in a corner at Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud.

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Dec 22, 2011 Anmiryam rated it 3 of 5 stars

I wanted to love this book. It jumped off of my pile of shortlisted Booker Prize nominees and demanded to be read first. Everything about it shouted "Yes, it's literature, but IT's FUN." The premise is that of a classic picaresque novel -- Charlie and Eli Sisters, two professional assassins in 1850 are sent by their employer to hunt down and kill Herman Kermit Warm who may, or may not, have stolen something. In the course of their journey from Oregon to California, at the height of the gold rush...more

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Apr 17, 2013 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

I like reading about bad people in fiction. And, lest we jump to conclusions, it's not because I'm a bad person myself (at least not in the torture or kill people kind of way; no, the sins in which I dabble are much more pedestrian than that), but it's because I like peering into those dark little corners of their brains. And, what is often the most frightening and fascinating is when I find that, really, they're much more like me than I care to admit.

Take Pulp Fiction, for example, which may b...more I like reading about bad people in fiction. And, lest we jump to conclusions, it's not because I'm a bad person myself (at least not in the torture or kill people kind of way; no, the sins in which I dabble are much more pedestrian than that), but it's because I like peering into those dark little corners of their brains. And, what is often the most frightening and fascinating is when I find that, really, they're much more like me than I care to admit.

Take Pulp Fiction, for example, which may be my favorite movie of all time. Sure, you've got some of the old ultraviolence, but what's really chilling is to see how it's part of the average work day for Jules and Vincent. Their days are filled with conversations both philosophical and mundane, punctuated by acts of violence that they accept as part of how their world works. When we think of men who can kill, we think of monsters, depraved beings who have no moral compass, an inability to reason. While that is certainly sometimes the case, sometimes we find that--behind the monster--there is just a man, one who knows that what he is doing is wrong, but does it anyway: for money, for love, for power. And what worked for Pulp Fiction is what works for The Sisters Brothers.

Charlie and Eli Sisters are two of the most feared assassins in the West, working for a shadowy figure known only as "The Commodore." Charlie, the older brother, is ruthless and power hungry, while his brother, Eli, is a sensitive sort who is prone to violence when he becomes enraged--a tool often used by Charlie to his advantage. Even in adulthood, Eli is relegated to the archetypal role of the younger brother, haplessly following and obeying his older brother, while occasionally challenging Charlie just to see how far he can be pushed.

The brothers are sent by The Commodore on an errand to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, a prospector who has crossed The Commodore in ways unknown to the brothers. Not that it matters as their job is to kill and not ask questions. The journey there provides the brothers with adequate time to be attacked by a bear, run into a backwoods witch, visit a brothel, and encounter characters curious and strange. As the men travel, we see them banter back and forth, every bit true siblings, alternately needling each other's quirks and weaknesses and then engaging in profound conversations about their beliefs and shared history.

The dialogue between the brothers is the real treat of the novel--witty and peculiarly formal (think Charles Portis' characters as portrayed in the Coen version of True Grit). As he longs for love, worries about his weight, discovers the joys of dental hygiene, and wrestles with his disdain and admiration for his one-eyed, cantankerous horse, Tub, Eli Sisters is the more relatable of the two brothers. However, before one can become too attached to either character, a scene of needless and wanton violence reminds us that both of these men are killers and, for all the contemplation of human nature the two engage in, it proves as difficult to put down a gun as it is to pick one up.

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Jun 08, 2013 Julie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: usa-historical, read-2013

Poor Eli Sisters, forced to muddle through his existential crisis, navel-gazing about the direction of his life generations before “What Color Is Your Parachute?” He is as melancholy as a single gal approaching the cutoff point where it’s more likely she’ll get killed by a terrorist than receive a marriage proposal and he’s just as self-conscious about his weight. He does pick up the unusual yet refreshing habit of cleaning his teeth, so perhaps his own prospects for love late in life will marke...more

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Mar 25, 2012 ·Karen· rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: canada, mttbr-2012, f2f-book-group-reads

A novel that is as whip-snap sharp and original as the artwork on the cover. Well, I say original, but who am I to judge, as I don't read Westerns and have never read any of the stuff that Mr de Witt is being compared to. I've not read Charles Portis (maybe I should?), although I did sit through the recent Coen Brothers film of True Grit, desperately trying to make out what on earth Jeff Bridges was mumbling about, and not succeeding most of the time. (How a man can win an Oscar for Best Actor w...more A novel that is as whip-snap sharp and original as the artwork on the cover. Well, I say original, but who am I to judge, as I don't read Westerns and have never read any of the stuff that Mr de Witt is being compared to. I've not read Charles Portis (maybe I should?), although I did sit through the recent Coen Brothers film of True Grit, desperately trying to make out what on earth Jeff Bridges was mumbling about, and not succeeding most of the time. (How a man can win an Oscar for Best Actor without ever opening his mouth is a mystery to me.) Nor have I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, although there I know I should and indeed it is on the relevant bit of Billy. I do know that The Road is set in a post-apocalyptic world where some catastrophe has wiped out both civilisation and and most of life on Earth, whereas here the journey undertaken by the brothers Charles and Eli Sister takes them through the far Western edge of a still-to-be-established civilisation, where life is precarious, where mankind is in the grip of gold fever, a fever that seems to negate all ties of family loyalty, love or friendship, where death is imminent and unforeseeable. Indeed Charles and Eli are usually the agents of that death, but in a contrast that corresponds to the incongruity of the title, they are also loyal and caring and protective, at least of each other. Eli, the narrator, is endearing in his sensitivity and self-doubt, his hesitant questioning of his role and how he landed in it, this growing humanity marked by his relationship with his handicapped horse, Tub.

There is an arc of development in the shifting relationship between the two brothers. At the beginning Charlie, as the older, more ruthless one is designated leader and Eli is worse than a sidekick, he is a liability with his spider bite and his tooth abscess and his sentimentality. But Charlie is troubled too, he drinks hard and long, and sleeps poorly. And although Charlie can imagine getting out of this business, the only way he can see to survive in a dog-eat-dog world is by taking top dog position. Can they escape from this mill, or do they only succeed in perpetuating the pattern of murder and revenge? This question of personal renewal, the bonds of family, the structures of cause and effect, these are all themes which lend this tale reverberatory depth. The narrative voice is irresistible, commanding attention and sympathy from the very start. And although some of the episodes might seem so wild as to risk taking off into whimsical allegory, the narrative remains as sure-footed and earth-bound as a mountain goat.

This was given to me as a Christmas present: rarely have I enjoyed anything that I didn't select for myself so much, indeed rarely have I enjoyed anything quite so much. A heck of a read.

And even better the second time round.
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Apr 24, 2012 Jennifer (aka EM) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Quite an amazing journey of a book. Prior to (or, perhaps, instead of) a review, I point to the cover: it's fantastic. The moon, with the Sisters brothers' heads like dark eyes in a skull - and whose skull is that? Why, it's Shakespeare's, is it not?

Indeed, there is something Shakespearean about this book - in its primal motivations; its themes of guilt, blame and remorse; the thickness of family ties; the inevitable playing out of fate. A tragi-comic morality play - although I have to confess,...more

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Oct 02, 2012 Jim rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: canadian-authors, western, fiction

I'm not quite sure what I read here;I'll have to file this one under Cutesy or Gimmicky. The author has put some thought into the premise and has really come up with some promising characters in the protagonists, a pair of killers for hire who happen to be on the payroll of a mysterious entity known only as "The Commodore". The mission the brothers have committed to requires them to kill a prospector who has developed a secret formula that enables him to find gold with a minimum of effort. If th...more

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Oct 22, 2012 K.D. Oliveros rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to K.D. by: Booker 2011 Shortlist

Shelves: booker, noir, western, humour

I just heard that Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel won the 2012 Booker. In the next few weeks, that book along with the nominees will start showing up in our bookstores here in Manila. I'd seen Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil already prior to the announcement but it is still hardcover so it is quite pricey so I resisted. I also thought I'd like to start with the winner and then the runner-ups.

Just like what I did for last year's Booker shortlisted novels and the eventual winner. In fact, last year...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Louise rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: western

The Sisters Brothers exceeded my expectations. I was really dreading reading this for the Goodreads bookclub book because I usually hate westerns. Why do I hate them? Because it's so dirty! There's dust everywhere. Everyone has dry skin. And there's dirt everywhere. Luckily, this book alleviated my doubts thanks to the introduction of good oral hygiene. I kid you not.

The characters were enjoyable despite being mostly one-dimensional. The plot was entertaining and I honestly didn't really know wh...more

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May 15, 2011 Justin Sorbara-Hosker rated it 4 of 5 stars

Damn. If this doesn't get shortlisted for both the Giller & the GG, something is seriously wrong. Unlike a lot of fiction that gets rewarded by Canadian prize juries, this work is not a navel-gazing inquiry into identity, isolation, or memory, but actually about the story, first and foremost. And it's well-written.

Two hired gun brothers sent from Oregon to San Francisco to carry out a killing, but of course things don't go as planned. McCarthy comparisons happening already, but the humour m...more

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Oct 30, 2012 Keith rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Charlie and Eli Sisters are notorious gunfighters---well, perhaps that’s too conventional a description. Charlie and Eli are notorious murderers who use guns or any other appropriate weapons to dispatch their intended targets but otherwise there is nothing conventional about them or this tale of the western frontier, set during the California gold rush. Charlie is the coldblooded older brother and Eli is the killer with a poetic conscience and a keen observer of human behavior, as well as the na...more

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Apr 07, 2013 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: novel

I need to start off by saying that I had to keep turning back to glimpse at the cover throughout this read – I absolutely adore the cover art!

The Sisters Brothers are guns for hire contracted by their employer, The Commodore. The Commodore is vague in his explanations of why he wants certain people killed, and so it is with the brothers’ next job: to kill Hermann Kermit Warm.

Set at the height of the Gold Rush, The Sisters brothers take off from Oregon and make their trip to San Francisco in se...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action, western

This is a pretty good book. While it's billed as a dark comedy the humor mostly left me cold, in other words I didn't find the humor that humorous.

The Sisters Brothers are noted killers who work for the Commodore. Cross the Commodore, steal from the Commodore, wrong the Commodore or just get on the Commodore's wrong side and you'll probably see the Sisters Brothers or not if they see you fist and Charlie thinks you might be a bit much to take on from the front.

Charlie is the lead man, now. It s...more

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Feb 25, 2012 Ellen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: canadian

I loved this book.

This is not your daddy's western. If it weren't for the California gold rush setting and guns-for-hire subject matter, I wouldn't consider The Sisters Brothers a western at all. Take the same story and characters, update them into a present-day setting - or back to medieval China - and I think it would still work. That's because the brothers - especially, Eli - are so well written.

The Sisters brothers are Charles and Eli, two gunmen employed by the Commodore. The Commodore ha...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Brian rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Brian by: man booker prize 2011 shortlist

(4.5) Quite enjoyable read...awesome cover too

I had read a bunch of novels/letters/narrative-within-novels and thought I had escaped that format before, but was just a tad disappointed when I found a diary in the narrative (not to mention two intermissions--?).

But these minor criticisms aside, this was a fantastic read. Perhaps not all readers will find these two professional killers the most likable murderers you're likely to meet? They live by their own moral code, and I guess are the good guy...more

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Mar 25, 2011 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: D. Pow, Krok, brian, and most of all DK

It's going to be difficult to find a review, or maybe just to write one, without a slew of comparisons. deWitt's novel is not so much a classic western as a classic revisionist western, and--in tone, wandering plot, outsized eccentrics, casually-brutal violence, and essentially humanist foundations--it's in a league with the great Charles Portis' True Grit, with David Milch's much-missed series Deadwood, and the great Altman film McCabe and Mrs. Miller. While this (dull) repetition of comparison...more It's going to be difficult to find a review, or maybe just to write one, without a slew of comparisons. deWitt's novel is not so much a classic western as a classic revisionist western, and--in tone, wandering plot, outsized eccentrics, casually-brutal violence, and essentially humanist foundations--it's in a league with the great Charles Portis' True Grit, with David Milch's much-missed series Deadwood, and the great Altman film McCabe and Mrs. Miller. While this (dull) repetition of comparisons is bad news for reviews, there's a silver lining: SB is no weak sister, but fully deserves a place on the mental shelf with those classics.

deWitt dazzled me with the trippy slipperiness of the plotting. While the overarching quest (two hired killers on the trail of a shady gnomish miscreant) is familiar and somewhat generically fore-ordained, Eli and Charlie's travels--and as importantly narrator Eli's thoughts--never walk a straight line. I was never quite sure what would happen, a few miles or pages down the line, and that's saying something about a bleak oater.

Such sideways wandering and wondering also define deWitt's humor--the book brings the funny--but even more surprisingly his humanism. One strain of the revisionist western sticks our faces in the muck, and reveals behind the mythic archetypes of the classic form a relentless ruthless universe emptied of meaning. But the texts I note above run a different path -- God may be dead, life is surely short and often horrific, and people behave brutishly, bullying and devouring and casually childishly destroying. But in Portis, Milch, Altman, deWitt there's also a real delight in human specificity: the (lovely) vulgar ugliness of bodies and desire, the (surprising) opportunities for empathy bubbling up between the least likely people. Here, Eli is never able to fully see past or through his failings, but he's trying. And there's a grim yet generous compassion in deWitt's depiction of how we treat one another.

It's a great read, a very good novel--and I can't wait to read more from deWitt.(less)

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Nov 15, 2011 Mina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction

I get the McCarthy comparisons, but this book has an additional (disturbing) Kill Bill element, with a totally unique narrator who makes the story his own. I guess the "cowboy noir" description is pretty apt. The Sisters Brothers are some badass fabled assassins, but Sister Brother #2 Eli is no hot and gritty cowboy (a la Daniel Craig); rather he is the pudgy sidekick with a conscience who lends his melancholy, earthy-poetic voice to the tale. The writing is terse, and the characters are compell...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Jennyreadsexcessively rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow--fun, fun read! The Sisters brothers are two guns-for-hire working in the Gold Rush Days of Oregon and California. Eli, the younger and more tenderhearted of the two, narrates the story of himself and his brother, Charlie. Charlie is the brains of the operation. Charlie makes most of the calls and is ruthless when it comes to tolerating others. But Charlie loves his liquor too much to keep the boys on schedule. The brothers have been hired to track down a mysterious gold prospector who holds...more

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Jun 08, 2011 Brad rated it 4 of 5 stars

It seems Patrick deWitt has noted the similarity between the laconic nature of Western heroes and the understated style of dark, dry humour. The Sisters Brothers is a fairly violent tale of two killers who are also brothers, but the narrative voice, coming from the POV of Eli Sisters, does much to undercut the violence of it all. Actual violent acts are quite graphic, but they are described briefly and realistically, and not dwelt upon. More time is spent on dialogue with the odd characters that...more It seems Patrick deWitt has noted the similarity between the laconic nature of Western heroes and the understated style of dark, dry humour. The Sisters Brothers is a fairly violent tale of two killers who are also brothers, but the narrative voice, coming from the POV of Eli Sisters, does much to undercut the violence of it all. Actual violent acts are quite graphic, but they are described briefly and realistically, and not dwelt upon. More time is spent on dialogue with the odd characters that the Sisters brothers meet on their journey.

The first half of the novel recounts the journey of the brothers as they make for California, where, by order of the Commodore, they are meant to kill Hermann Kermit Warm. This first lengthy half of the book is set up as a series of episodes, wherein the brothers meet offbeat characters and suffer various trials and tribulations. For some reason, though they meet three fairly important female characters, none of them are ever referred to by proper names; this could be an insight into Eli's psychology, since he has issues with women, or it could be a comment on the Western as a genre, and its depiction of women. Or possibly both.

My favourite of these random characters from the first half of the novel is the fifteen year old boy who tries to follow the brothers on his old, dilapidated horse. He keeps telling them that, though he doesn't look like much, this pony can sure move. And then the leave him in the dust. You'll have to trust me that it's funnier when you read it.

The second half of the novel is focused more specifically on their interactions with Warm, a fascinating man who has invented a formula which can reveal the location of gold in a river. This story is much more elaborate than the short vignettes that make up the first part of the book, but in that way I think it's less focused. The only real misstep in the novel, to my mind, is a very lengthy chapter (in a book where some chapters are only a page) recounting Warm's life. He's the only character that gets a full back story, and frankly I find him to be the character that needs one the least. As an oddball and inventor, he's inherently interesting, and his actual history is unnecessary, and frankly quite dull by comparison to the rest of the book.

But that's a minor peccadillo. The Sisters Brothers is a highly entertaining novel, the first one in some time that I've read in only a couple of sittings, because I wanted to get through it. (less)

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May 06, 2011 RandomAnthony rated it 4 of 5 stars

Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers reads like a novel written by a guy under Faulker and Cormac McCarthy's influence but who dispenses, wisely, with 95% of the deep meaning and sticks with a solid, cinematic storyline instead. That's a good decision. Trust me.

The Sisters Brothers proceeds as if the book should have a whistle-heavy soundtrack for the inevitable film, with the lead roles played by up and coming actors of whom we haven't yet heard. Eli and Charlie Sisters, feared killers for hir...more

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Sep 20, 2011 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a helluva read, and Eli Sisters is as engaging a narrator as I've read since my brief Portis bender this summer.

I'm not sure how much is there if you go digging beneath the surface of this novel (which is to say: exactly why was it short-listed for the Man-Booker, and what might its selection tell us about the slow decline in shelf-cred of that award since the Man took it over?), but I'm not sure I care to pull it apart either. It will inevitably draw comparisons--McCarthy (an easy, slop...more

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May 09, 2012 Melanie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Have to be honest, this book (great premise) was so uneventful for me. Lacked tension, flat characters, some bright moments of sharp dialogue, but too brief to redeem it. Zero sense of place or time. A western?

Not at all what I expected, but I'm so unmoved that I don't even feel cheated. That some reviewers are making favourable Cormac McCarthy & Deadwood comparisons is the only thing about this that raises my pulse.

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Feb 04, 2013 Trena rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book did not draw me in with the first paragraph. I was wary of the gold-rush-cowboy-vigilante-adventure trope. But if you give it a chance, you will gladly ride into the sunset with it.

The best part to me was the voice. The narrator--Eli Sisters, killer for hire--has a dispassionate, precise voice and I assume is meant to be somewhere on the autism spectrum. It reminded me a bit of the narrator of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. So he is a good chronicler and the details...more

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Oct 23, 2012 Carey Shea rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people interested in the wild west and the Gold Rush.

Recommended to Carey by: Goodreads

Shelves: mystery-thriller

I have never read a book about the Gold Rush in California before. It was a real page turner. The story is told by Eli a man who has a twin brother Charlie. They work for the Commodore as hit men. They were send to find a man called Warm but first they had to meet up with Morris who also worked for the Commodore as he would oranize things. It is a tale of the 2 brothers whose last name is Sisters (hence the title of the book). They go on an adventure from Oregon City to California and meeting al...more

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Oct 13, 2012 Kathyred rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: historicalfiction, western

A western, told from the POV of the "bad guys" that nonetheless makes them sympathetic characters. I loved the dead-pan delivery and the over-the-top oddball characters. Casual cruelty and low morals of course, but not as bloody/gross as it could have been. On an annoying technical note, however, it wasn't divided up into segments so I couldn't take the CDs out of my car and listen to it while I did chores

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Jul 07, 2011 Eric rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Fans of westerns, anti-heroes

Shelves: western

This fast-paced western follows the titular Sisters brothers -- two anti-hero gun thug killers -- on a series of adventures through the west coast frontier. While the language in the novel was clear and concise, the characters were complex and compelling -- especially the story's narrator, the conflicted Eli Sisters -- giving the book a kind of modern cinematic feel to it.

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May 29, 2011 Lea rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: love-the-cover, acquired-2011, read-2011, reviews

This is a deceptively simple book. The writing is simple, the chapters are short, on the surface of it the story itself is quite simple. But there are ideas here that run much deeper than what you see on the surface.

Charlie and Eli Sisters are killers, so famous that simply stating their names makes people shake with fear. Charlie is brash and ruthless. Eli, who narrates their tale, is introspective and soft hearted. He's been drawn into this life by his feelings of loyalty and protectiveness t...more

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Sep 18, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Hmmm- the anti-western?
Unpredictable and strange story of two hired guns set during the Gold Rush days. It is what lies beneath these psychopathic brothers that keeps you interested. SO GOOD.

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Jan 01, 2012 Karen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

Awesome cover.

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Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He is the author of Help Yourself Help Yourself (2007, Teenage Teardrops), Ablutions (Feb. 09, Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt/Granta), which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and The Sisters Brothers (May 2011, Ecco/House of Anansi). He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and son.

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