The Sisters BrothersSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly • Amazon • Hudson Booksellers • Washington Post 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. |
Contents
Chapter | 25 |
Chapter 26 | |
Intermission | |
Chapter 32 | |
Hermann Kermit Warm | |
Chapter 36 | |
Chapter 43 | |
Chapter 44 | |
Chapter | 12 |
Chapter | 13 |
Chapter | 14 |
Chapter | 15 |
Chapter | 16 |
Chapter | 18 |
Chapter | 19 |
Chapter | 20 |
Chapter | 23 |
Chapter | 24 |
California | 24 |
Chapter 46 | |
Chapter 48 | |
Chapter 49 | |
Chapter 53 | |
Chapter 54 | |
Chapter 55 | |
Chapter 57 | |
Intermission II | |
Chapter 59 | |
Epilogue | |