“I’ve thought of it as a few different things at a few different times, but now I’ve come to consider it simply a Western.”
- Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt is a Canadian writer, born in the twentieth century and writing his novels, now, in the twenty-first; his second book however, the Man Booker shortlisted The Sisters Brothers for those who have been living under a literary rock, is an entirely unique chronicle of blood, brotherhood and morality in gold rush-era American west.

Sticking the words 'ahead of its time' or 'first of its kind' in front of just about any old bollocks seems to be a prerequisite of most any marketing strategy these days - so much so in fact that if you haven't become accustomed to assuming those phrases are synonymous for derivative toilet-fodder then you probably don't read many press releases. 

The Twilight Singers: it's a good name. A deceptive name. The more cynical among you might even call it a trick. The moniker immediately evokes the spirit of their contemporaries – The Twilight Sad and The Cave Singers. If, however, you've ever taken the time to listen to The Twilight Singers then you probably know that their chronological proximity is where the comparison ends.