Heather Touet's comments have been edited for length and clarity. It was definitely more funny than All the Pretty Horses, but it involved two rogues travelling through the road in western times, getting into adventures." Again, it was a non-traditional narrative. "So when I heard about Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers, I thought I should give a Canadian author's western a chance. It's a bit depressing, as most of his books are, but it spoke to me. "I confess I don't really like western novels or western movies or western anything. But I happened to read Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses a few years ago and I loved it. The first portion of the novel deals with Cole and his friend Lacey Rawlins as they make their way from Texas to Mexico, across a terrain that, like Cole’s personal life, is littered with loss. Two nave young men travel on horseback into the desert wilderness of western Texas. Why Patrick deWitt was compelled to write a western novel - The Sisters Brothers The narrative of All the Pretty Horses is divided into three sections. This novel is both a coming-of-age story and a quest of personal discovery.The Next Chapter listener Heather Touet believes the Canadian counterpart to the novel is Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers, which is also an award-winning, bestselling novel that has been adapted for film. 7, 2019.Ĭormac McCarthy's 1993 book All the Pretty Horses was both a critical and commercial success, winning the National Book Award for fiction, becoming a national bestseller and being adapted for film.
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