The Sisters Brothers

Name: The Sisters Brothers
Author: Patrick deWitt
ISBN: 9781847083722

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#996 of 8,085 books · #170 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2011), the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2012), and the Giller Prize (2011).

The Sisters Brothers was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride - fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to Sacramento. But their prey isn't an easy mark, the road is long and bloody, and somewhere along the path Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and who he does it for. Filled with a remarkable cast of 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. It beautifully captures the humour, melancholy, and grit of the Old West, through a tale of two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

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