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The Sisters Brothers

By: Patrick deWitt
Narrated by: William Hope
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Shortlisted for: International Author of the Year – Specsavers National Book Awards 2012

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....

©2011 Patrick deWitt (P)2011 W F Howes Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction
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The Sisters Brothers brings you to the American frontier and fills it with a parade of quirky characters and memorable moments. The titular brothers play off one another brilliantly and have a believable bond, and their entire journey is a joy to absorb.

The tale is consistently funny, but never lets its humour detract from the narrative. It is dark but not gruesome. It is at times profound, but never pretentious. My only complaint is that it ends a bit anticlimactically, though if anything this only highlights how engrossed I was.

The narration is truly exemplary. Some audiobooks simply read you the story, William Hope immerses you in the adventure.

Highly recommend!

A Fantastic Foray into the Frontier

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Sometimes there's a perfect storm. Where the narrator is SO well suited to the story that it feels like it was written for them to read.

This is one of those times.

You actually feel like you are there in this grizzly, raw, frontier. Riding with the brothers, and living their life for a time.

It was so good, it made me think of oral stories told around camp fires in the past... Like he was recounting it as you watched the embers glow.

The perfect storm.

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great book. was a recommendation from a friend. quite surprised that I liked it so much. performance was very good.

a good surprise

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did you read the gunslinger now and want to know more about where Roland was from did you watch for a fistful of Dollars and wish he was worse journey into the dark heart the ambiguous heart

strange and beautiful prose, perfectly narrated

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I zoomed through this in a couple of days. Narration was superb and I look forward to reading more from deWitt.

A gorgeous book

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Tarantino meets Fargo. Bitter sweet story of two brothers will leave you laughing and feeling a little sentimental all at once.

Funny and well crafted

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what a ride this was, so many little stories happening in between Oregon and Cali and back , each character major or minor are so well written and the world building puts you right there with them highly recommend

The epitome of "the journey not the destination"

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