![]() ![]() What raises The Sisters Brothers above your usual adventure story is the character of Eli Sisters. These chapters are very short and episodic, often reading like a Coen Brothers film treatment for the western that Beckett never wrote, but they propel the action along as the brothers drink, dual and steal their way to San Francisco and their quarry. ![]() ![]() Their journey from Oregon City is a picaresque succession of adventures, fights and bizarre encounters with, among others, a perpetually weeping man an abandoned boy in the woods and a less than salubrious saloon and whorehouse owner. The Sisters Brothers don’t know what Herman has done, they only know that he is a dead man, because the Commodore wants it that way and because they have been paid to kill him. Set against the backdrop of the 1850s gold rush, the story is structured around an outwardly simple propulsive narrative, the book follows the narrator, Eli Sisters and his brother Charlie as they pursue a gold prospector, the wonderfully named Herman Kermit Warm who has been marked for death by their boss, the Commodore. The Sisters Brothers is undoubtedly a western, but this is a western of the mind rather than of the landscape. ![]()
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