The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick de Witt
2011 / 336 pages
narrated by John Pruden 7h 42m
rating – 8
This book is totally hilarious – Eli Sisters, the first person narrator is a dirty, merciless killer of the wild west circa 1851-2 on a job to hunt down an enemy of his boss. Eli and his brother Charlie are everything a bad guy should be except for two things – they speak perfect, contraction-less English, and they love their mother.
En route to California to eliminate Hermitt Warm they have a series of adventures which turn Eli’s head to thinking about love and work and his brother. Is this what Eli really wants to do for a living? The answer is not really – but how to leave his brother and when is the question. Meanwhile there’s a little gal in …
You’ve got to read it – it’s thoroughly original.
I’m going after this one. I love humor in any story.
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Oh good. It’s quite different.
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