The Sisters Brothers
2011 • 281 pages
Ratings49
Average rating3.8
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Ratings49
Average rating3.8
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.
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What if Kurt Vonnegut wrote a western about a pair of hitman brothers in the wild west?
This book is fun and disturbing so far.
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What a great read. Excellent characterization, wonderfully diverse themes (death, life, morality) that are never wielded with too heavy a hammer. Also one of the few books I've read in a long while that made me laugh out loud.
This was a quick read. The first third was gripping and then the plot fell apart a bi. The voice of the narrator, Eli, was terrific.
I absolutely loved this book. The parts where animals got hurt were hard for me, very hard, however they were not gratuitous or obscene so I managed them. Even with the animal suffering (usually a deal breaker for me) there is no question that this is a 5 star book.
