6/19/2023 0 Comments The sisters brothers book review![]() ![]() But it's the startlement of Eli's observations, and the musicality of his voice, that make The Sisters Brothers such a twisted delight. ![]() ![]() Rendered theatrically in three acts with two intermissions and an epilogue, The Sisters Brothers co-stars a sideshow of eccentrics – including a crone prone to cursing, a sniveling orphan, a failed dentist, drunken whores, and prospectors turned mad with gold-lust – and the action is at once graphic and thrilling. But Eli is also sentimental and unusually sensitive in an era and terrain dominated by pistol-fisted reactionaries – the sweetest stone-cold killer you'd ever meet.Įli narrates DeWitt's black-comic picaresque, chronicling with an eye askant his and his brother's journey to San Francisco, where they're meant to murder a man on the order of their boss, an Old West despot known only as the Commodore. Summarized by one of their prey as "the mean one" and "the fat one," Charlie is the elder, a bully quick to violence and to drink, and Eli is indeed on the chunky side (he's a stress eater). The Sisters brothers are Charlie and Eli, hired guns trekking across Gold Rush country. ![]()
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