has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for his genre-bending novel, The Sisters Brothers.
The Sisters Brothers was cited by the jury as masterful and mesmerizing in its exploration of the blurred lines between good and evil. "This is the sort of material that, in lesser hands, could easily have sunk into middling farce, but deWitt's portrayal of the homicidal brothers and the quixotic roster of characters thrown in their path is fresh, moving, insightful, and always funny. Cinematic in its scope, meditative in its tone and brilliantly inventive in its characterization, The Sisters Brothers is a book unlike any you may read during this or the coming years. Unforgettable."
We can vouch for the merits of the book too as it caught the enthusiastic attention of several of our booksellers upon the novel's release last June. Since then several other booksellers have read it and the response has been unanimously positive. We highly recommend it.
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Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Fiction, the 2011 Roger's Writers Trust Prize, and the 2012 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The e...
