»TéléCHargEr. The Sisters Brothers: A Novel Livre. par Ecco

The Sisters Brothers is a truly original novel. While it's a Western, it doesn't completely feel like it. The writing style is so lyrical and the dialogue flows so effortlessly that it feels more of a satire, an interweaving of humour, brotherhood, intrigue and murder. The two Sisters brothers, Charlie and Eli are hitmen for the Commodore, who has contracted them to assassinate Hermann Kermit Warm. They are both remorseless in killing but Eli wants to try new things and dreams of a

It might be thought of as noir for people who think they don't like noir, in the same way that Patrick DeWitt's justly praised The Sisters Brothers is a western for people who think they don't like westerns

The two Sisters brothers, Charlie and Eli are hitmen for the Commodore, who has contracted them to assassinate Hermann Kermit Warm. They are both remorseless in killing but Eli wants to try new things and dreams of a different life, perhaps opening a store, settle down with a female, any female - such a sweet guy. His volatile and less sensitive elder brother doesn't have the same outlook. They are both psychopaths, with a lack of empathy or emotional attachment, and this makes for some

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 beautifuLL.y captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love