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Patrick DeWitt
The Sisters Brothers
Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2011
2011. 328 p. 18 cm
Verlag/Jahr: GRANTA BOOKS 2011
ISBN: 1-84708-600-4 (1847086004)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-84708-600-6 (9781847086006)
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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 whom he does it for.
"The Sisters Brothers" pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable ribald tour de force. 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 that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.
Patrick deWitt wurde 1975 auf Vancouver Island in Kanada geboren. Er lebte unter anderem in Kalifornien und Washington. Patrick deWitt lebt heute mit seiner Frau und seinem Sohn in Portland, Oregon.