The Sisters Brothers

This article is about the 2011 novel. For the 2018 film based on the novel, see The Sisters Brothers (film). For similar titles, see Sisters and Brothers (disambiguation).
The Sisters Brothers
Cover image of original 2011 edition
AuthorPatrick deWitt
Cover artistDan Stiles
LanguageEnglish
GenreWestern fiction
PublisherHouse of Anansi Press
Publication date
2011
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages325 (hardcover)
ISBN978-0-88784-289-4 (hardcover)

The Sisters Brothers is a 2011 Western novel by Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt. The darkly comic story takes place in Oregon and California in 1851. The narrator, Eli Sisters, and his brother Charlie are assassins tasked with killing Hermann Kermit Warm, an ingenious prospector who has been accused of stealing from the Sisters' fearsome boss, the Commodore. Eli and Charlie experience a series of misadventures while tracking down Warm which resemble the narrative form of a picaresque novel, and the chapters are, according to one review, "slightly sketched-in, dangerously close to a film treatment."[1]

The film rights for the novel were sold to actor John C. Reilly's production company and adapted into a 2018 film of the same name, with Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix playing Eli and Charlie, respectively.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Book Review: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt | Afterword | Arts | National Post". Arts.nationalpost.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
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