Oregon, 1851.
It is an inventive and strange and beautifully controlled piece of fiction, which shows an exciting expansion of Dewitt\'s range..
Like his debut novel Ablutions, The Sisters Brothers is a novel about the things you tell yourself in order to be able to continue to live the life you find yourself in, and what happens when those stories no longer work.
Told in deWitt\'s darkly comic and arresting style, The Sisters Brothers is the kind of Western the Coen Brothers might write - stark, unsettling and with a keen eye for the perversity of human motivation.
What happens next is utterly gripping, strange and sad.
Then they get to California, and discover that Warm is an inventor who has come up with a magical formula, which could make all of them very rich.
And they bicker a lot.
Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his way
Eli doubts his vocation and falls in love.
On the way, the Brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold Rush America.
Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm.
Oregon, 1851
