Patrick de Witt’s dazzlingly original novel is a darkly funny, offbeat Western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother
Patrick deWitt
Patrick deWitt’s writing career began when he published a short book of ‘random writings and bad advice’, called Help Yourself Help Yourself
His first novel, Ablutions, was published in 2009. His second, The Sisters Brothers, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2011. His writing has appeared in several US magazines and anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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