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Awards
2012 Oregon Book Award for Fiction
Staff Pick
This entertaining and heartbreaking story is told by a fabulous narrator, Eli Sisters. Eli and his brother Charlie are hired killers in late 19th-century Oregon and California, and this is the tale of their final job. Synopses & ReviewsReview:"[The Sisters Brothers] is full of surprises, among them...is the quirky beauty of the language Patrick deWitt has devised for his narrator.... The Sisters Brothers is deWitt's second novel...and is an inventive and ingenious character study. It will make you impatient for the third." Dallas Morning News Review:"Funny and strange [and] oddly warm...you'll find yourself ashamedly pulling for the brothers Sisters like you did for Jules and Vinnie in Pulp Fiction." Outside magazine Review:"Sharp and wondrous...[a] funny, oddly moving novel." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Review:"Mesmerizing... The book seduces us to its characters, and draws us on the strength of deWitt's subtle, nothing-wasted prose. He writes with gorgeous precision about the grotesque: an amputation, a gouged eye, a con in a dive bar, a nauseating body count [without] macho brutishness." Cleveland Plain Dealer Review:"Original, entrancing and entertaining." Denver Post Review:"A twisted delight...Familiar, yes, but never not fresh. Also: creepy and sometimes inscrutable, gory with multiple amputations, rollicking and wistful and roundly winning." Austin Chronicle Review:"Weirdly funny, startlingly violent and steeped in sadness... It's all rendered irresistible by Eli Sisters, who narrates with a mixture of melancholy and thoughtfulness." Washington Post Review:"Cinematic, wry and mannered.... Just as much as The Sisters Brothers is about a killing, it's also about the difficulty of holding on to or setting aside all the things a killer has to convince himself of to make his life palatable." Philadelphia City Paper Review:"Both homage to the classic Western and knife thrust to its dark underbelly, this novel has a quirky, deadpan exterior and a hard-beating heart; we come to see how men die and how the brotherly bond shifts but holds.... I was intrigued by page one." Library Journal Review:"The brothers' punchily poetic banter and the book's bracing bursts of violence keep this campfire yarn pulled taut." The Onion AV Club Review:"Patrick deWitt's latest novel, The Sisters Brothers [evokes]... a feeling you revel in the re-creation of even more than you would enjoy going back to the original experience at its source." The Stranger Review:"DeWitt creates a homage to life in the Wild West but at the same time reveals its brutality." Kirkus Reviews Review:"[A] thrilling, smart and surprisingly touching read...visual and visceral...always compelling and surprising." BookPage Review:"Thrilling...a lushly voiced picaresque story...so richly told, so detailed, that what emerges is a weird circus of existence, all steel shanks and ponies, gut shots and medication poured into the eyeholes of the dying. At some level, this too is a kind of revenge story, marvelously blurry." Esquire Review:"By turns hilarious, graphic and meditative, The Sisters Brothers hooked me from page one all the way to 300 — and I could have stayed on for many more." NPR.org Review:"If you're looking for an unforgettable western, grab this one." Monday Mag Review:"Portland author Patrick DeWitt has hit on a sure-fire road to success." Portland Book Review Review:"DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers is a glorious picaresque Western; everything about this book is stylish, from its conceit to its cover design making it a truly worthy inclusion on the shortlist." Daily Beast Review:"DeWitt's exploitations of the picaresque form are striking, and he has a wonderful way of exercising his comic gifts without ever compromising the novel's gradual accumulation of darkness, disgust, and foreboding." The Millions What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 5 comments:
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