Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold Rush America. Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his way; Eli doubts his vocation and falls in love. And they bicker a lot. Then they get to California, and discover that Warm is an inventor who has come up with a magical formula, which could make all of them very rich. What happens next is utterly gripping, strange and sad. Told in deWitt's darkly comic and arresting style, THE WARM JOB is the kind of Western the Coen Brothers might write - stark, unsettling and with a keen eye for the perversity of human motivation. Like his debut novel ABLUTIONS, THE WARM JOB is a novel about the things you tell yourself in order to be able to continue to live the life you find yourself in, and what happens when those stories no longer work. It is an inventive and strange and beautifully controlled piece of fiction, which shows an exciting expansion of Dewitt's range
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781847086006
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 02/02/2012
Año de edición: 2012
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Patrick deWitt
Patrick DeWitt (isla de Vancouver, Canadá, 1975) ha vivido en California, Washington y Oregon, donde reside actualmente con su mujer y su hijo. Ha publicado Abluciones: apuntes para una novela y, en Anagrama, Los hermanos Sisters, cuyos derechos de traducción se han vendido a 26 países. Finalista del Premio Man Booker, la novela ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios como el Governor General’s Award for English language fiction, el Rogers Writers’Trust Fiction Prize y el Ken Kesey Award. Asimismo fue declarada Libro del año por los editores de Amazon en Canadá y por la revista cultural New Statesman, y fue seleccionada en la lista de los Libros favoritos de 2011 del Irish Times.