PositiveThe Portland OregonianAlong the way the two encounter, among others: prospectors, prostitutes, criminals, an old witch, a dead Indian, a dentist (who first acquaints Eli with tooth brushing) and a weeping man leading a horse.Their exploits are spirited and often humorous, even against an ominous backdrop of blood and greed and gold … Patrick deWitt's picaresque narrative works with a wink and a nod of reverence, squaring with recent revivals of the Western in popular culture.
