Patrick deWitt writes darkly comic literary fiction about failed plans, eccentric men and the gap between the stories people tell about themselves and their actual behaviour. The Sisters Brothers follows hired killers Eli and Charlie Sisters on a journey during the California Gold Rush, mixing Western violence with deadpan humour as Eli increasingly questions the life he shares with his brother. French Exit centres on wealthy widow Frances Price and her adult son Malcolm as financial collapse sends them from New York to Paris, where social absurdity and family dependency replace frontier adventure. Undermajordomo Minor moves into a strange European castle and uses fairy-tale and Gothic elements. DeWitt's prose is economical, odd and frequently funny without making his characters harmless. The Sisters Brothers is the clearest introduction for readers of revisionist Westerns and literary black comedy, while French Exit suits those looking for a more contemporary social farce. Read more Less
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