This year's Man Booker Prize longlist has thrown up some eccentric choices; but The Sisters Brothers, an eccentric novel in both structure and tone, thoroughly deserves its nomination.

Charlie and Eli Sisters are strongmen in the pay of the unnamed Commodore, sent from Oregon to San Francisco to relieve an entrepreneur named Hermann Kermit Warm of a formula he has discovered for prospecting gold, and his life (in that order). Charlie, the elder sibling, is the

Literary Review

Sep 2011

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Jonathan Beckman

Deaths of the Artists

A Don Among the Dealers

For Queen & Company

The Great Hard Drive in the Sky

The Hunting of the Kundalini

Cicero on the Run

Nanban Thank You Ma’am

Raison d’Etre

There’s Treasure Everywhere

Twitching Fairy Penguin

Come Dine with Me

Gulf Course

Decline and Fall

House of Bones

Self-Fashioning

‘Thar She Blows’

Hours of Pleasure

Conversion Symptoms

Eucliding Me?

Political Pornography

All That Glitters

V For Voleuse

Title Stories

Death And The Maidens