The two men are brothers, who are also contract killers that work for the commodore. The story follows Eli and Charlie Sisters. I thought, 'who knows in what extraordinary form good tidings might arrive'."The Sisters Brothers" is a novel by author Patrick deWitt. I mean, how can you not appreciate a line like this (thought by Eli as he checks in on his injured brother): ?Charlie was asleep on his back, with his eyes wide open, and a full erection pressing against the front of his pants, which, despite my not wanting to know about the thing, I took as a sign of wellness. Did rough people on the frontier in the 1850s really talk like that? Still, even if this novel might be heavier on style than realism, it?s so witty and well-written, I didn?t mind. It also makes some of the side characters seem similar. My only real complaint is that, at times, I found the author?s insistence on having his characters speak with precise, formal-sounding diction to be odd to the point of the distraction. I enjoyed the protagonist and his earnest-minded view of the world - we learn that this gunman has a temperament not unsuited to his grim work, but also harbors tender feelings for his less-than-impressive pony, Tub, worries about his expanding belly, and enjoys a thorough tooth-brushing. The pair go from one picaresque misadventure to another, encountering mountain men, self-important gold barons, little girls with strange visions, and dentists, and getting into comic arguments with each other. The Sisters Brothers feels like the literary equivalent of a Coen Brothers movie (could the title be a homage?): quirky, slightly surreal, and mixing moments of violence and droll humor. Both have done bad things, but one, who tells the story, is a little less bad than the other.
Two brothers roam the Gold Rush-era Old West on their latest mission as hired killers.
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