Awards

• Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011.

Overview

Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling experiences in the landscape of Gold Rush America. And they bicker a lot. Arriving in California, and discover that Warm has invented a magical formula, which could make all of them very rich. What happens next is utterly gripping, strange and sad - This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60% of the author's work and as low as 30% with characters and plotlines removed.

Full Product Details

Author:   Patrick deWitt
Publisher:   Granta Books
Imprint:   Granta Books
ISBN:  

9781847083197

ISBN 10:   1847083196
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   05 January 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available  
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Alex writes: The Sisters Brothers is one of those impossible books that reaches for a huge breadth of emotion - from weary frontier humour to red-eyed rage to bleak pathos - and somehow pulls them all off. The narrator Eli is a phenomenal construct, a legendary gunslinger who still trails after his older, bully-boy brother Charlie and is ashamed of his pot belly and his rickety horse Boots. DeWitt manages to inject the novel with a genuine poignancy and complexity without padding it with the kind of windy passages on the human condition one expects to find in emotionally ambitious books like this. Eli carries his melancholy, poetic musings the way he carries his gunbelt- they complement the storyline rather than suffocating it. The plot itself veers into the absurd often and with giddy, come-with-me abandon, but never without breaking the story's rhythm. The best thing about this book, though, is that it's emphatically, unapologetically different - it draws on western tropes until the cows come home, but the end product is beyond refreshing. A deep, vastly moving tale that doesn't take itself too damn seriously, it's like nothing you've picked up before.

Author Information

Patrick deWitt's first novel Ablutions was a huge critical success. Born in British Columbia, he has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he currently resides with his wife and son.

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