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  The Sisters Brothers

  by Patrick deWitt

  Two notoriously vicious guns-for-hire pursue their target as gold fever sweeps the 1850s frontier. This darkly comic western follows the brothers' quirky misadventures as narrator Eli starts to doubt their gunslinging way of life. The style is a combination of magical realism, stream of consciousness and picaresque western adventure story. Many of the characters the brothers enconter are emblems of their own... (more)