Writing style
Conversational · Spare · Witty
Apple BooksThe Sisters Brothers
Western · Dark comedy · Noir · Picaresque
- Print length
- 328 pagesEcco, 2011
Description
Eli and Charlie Sisters make their living as killers in the 1850s American West, carrying out orders for a shadowy employer known as the Commodore. Their latest assignment sends them from Oregon City toward a gold claim near Sacramento, where they must find and murder Hermann Kermit Warm. Charlie embraces drinking and violence, while Eli increasingly wonders whether the life they share is the only one available to him. As Warm proves difficult to capture, the pursuit tests Eli’s loyalty to his brother, his employer, and his own battered conscience. Patrick deWitt recasts the Western as a darkly comic journey through a frontier underworld, where brutality and absurdity coexist and brotherly love carries its own forms of coercion.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Dark · Humorous · Irreverent · Tense
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Plot · Relationships
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062041265
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