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Cribbing from my Yuletide pimping post comments for the next little while, as I am nothing if not consistent
Fandom: The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
'...I ask you this only once more: Will you return the money, or the pelt?' 'All you will get from me is Death.' Charlie's words, spoken just as casual as a man describing the weather, brought the hair on my neck up and my hands began to pulse and throb. He is wonderful in situations like this, clear minded and without a trace of fear. He had always been this way, and though I had seen it many times, every time I did I felt an admiration for him.
What is it? A literary fiction/Western novel published in... 2012? 2013? Sometime around then. Got shortlisted for a Man Booker, in case you care about stuff like that.
What it's about? A sibling duo of gold rush-era assassins go on the hunt of a prospector their employer wants dead. The elder brother, Charlie, is super into their murderous lifestyle, but the younger brother, Eli, is beginning to reassess his life choices. Over the course of their travels + travails through Oregon and California in the 1850s, their relationship begins to fray at the seams. Other features: the most loving attention paid to the pleasures of toothbrushes I've ever come across in the written word; a horse named Tub.
Why You'll Love It: It's like a Coen Brothers movie comprised mostly of surreal vignettes relayed by an earnest 19th century frontier diarist. If you like black comedy and/or Westerns, it's a super entertaining quick read. Eli, the narrator, is so charming; I would read an entire series of him watching paint dry.
It's also a goldmine for fucked up incest shipping potential. Eli and Charlie's relationship is fraught with bitterness, resentment, trauma-forged codependency, parasitic familiarity, and affection. It's unhealthy in the best ways. The 300-odd pages we got were not. enough.
Caveat: The characters are bad people with period-typical attitudes about women, etc; the book is graphically violent; things don't end particularly happily for the leads (though it's not, like, Rogue One or anything).
It should be pretty easy to get ahold of via libraries or bookstores.
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Cribbing from my Yuletide pimping post comments for the next little while, as I am nothing if not consistentFandom: The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
'...I ask you this only once more: Will you return the money, or the pelt?'
'All you will get from me is Death.' Charlie's words, spoken just as casual as a man describing the weather, brought the hair on my neck up and my hands began to pulse and throb. He is wonderful in situations like this, clear minded and without a trace of fear. He had always been this way, and though I had seen it many times, every time I did I felt an admiration for him.
What is it? A literary fiction/Western novel published in... 2012? 2013? Sometime around then. Got shortlisted for a Man Booker, in case you care about stuff like that.
What it's about? A sibling duo of gold rush-era assassins go on the hunt of a prospector their employer wants dead. The elder brother, Charlie, is super into their murderous lifestyle, but the younger brother, Eli, is beginning to reassess his life choices. Over the course of their travels + travails through Oregon and California in the 1850s, their relationship begins to fray at the seams. Other features: the most loving attention paid to the pleasures of toothbrushes I've ever come across in the written word; a horse named Tub.
Why You'll Love It: It's like a Coen Brothers movie comprised mostly of surreal vignettes relayed by an earnest 19th century frontier diarist. If you like black comedy and/or Westerns, it's a super entertaining quick read. Eli, the narrator, is so charming; I would read an entire series of him watching paint dry.
It's also a goldmine for fucked up incest shipping potential. Eli and Charlie's relationship is fraught with bitterness, resentment, trauma-forged codependency, parasitic familiarity, and affection. It's unhealthy in the best ways. The 300-odd pages we got were not. enough.
Caveat: The characters are bad people with period-typical attitudes about women, etc; the book is graphically violent; things don't end particularly happily for the leads (though it's not, like, Rogue One or anything).
It should be pretty easy to get ahold of via libraries or bookstores.