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The Sisters brothers

by deWitt, Patrick
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Ecco (New York ) Physical details: 328 pages illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN:9780062041289; 0062041282; 9780062893574; 0062893572.
Subject(s): Brothers -- Fiction. | Gold miners -- Fiction. | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction. | Gold mines and mining -- Fiction. | West (U.S.) -- Fiction. | West United States. | Humorous stories. | Local author. | Western stories. | Humorous stories. | Humorous fiction. | Western fiction. | Fiction.
Year: 2011
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First paperback ed.: 2012.

One: Trouble with the horses -- Two: California -- Three: Hermann Kermit worm.

When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.

Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, 2011.

Rogers Writers' Trust Prize for fiction, 2011.

Oregon Book Award for Fiction, 2012.

Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist, 2011.

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