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Ecco
May 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0062041266
EAN: 9780062041265
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Non-Fiction
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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