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The popular choice for a pick of the books of 2011 is now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly. The Sisters Brothers are sent to murder a prospector, before eventually joining him.

Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt's dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother. The book pays homage to the classic Western, and is filled with a cast of losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all walks of life. It is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier and boasts a rather fantastic jacket. *Also appeared in Janua...

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forbidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and a puppy. He also meets Klara, a delicate beauty who is, unfortunately, already involved with an exceptionally handsome partisa...