| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780061768064 | | Publisher: Harpercollins | | Publish Date: 9/19/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208941097 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 67108 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 6.5L x 1.75T | | Pages: 480 |
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| | | A Hamlet-style tale that also celebrates the ancient alliance between humans and dogs follow the coming-of-age of speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
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In this enchanting debut novel, a mute boy with the ability to communicate with dogs becomes suspicious of his uncle after the death of his father--a plot readers of HAMLET will find familiar. However, there is much more going on in this novel than merely a reenactment of Shakespeare's play: THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE is full of strange magic, lyrical prose, and a love of animals that are uniquely its own. Author David Wroblewski toiled on the novel for ten years, and the result is a rich and lovingly crafted book with a timeless classic quality. Selected as one of the 2008 Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly.
| Praise| "[T]he most enchanting debut novel of the summer. Written over a decade by the heretofore unknown David Wroblewski and arriving as a bolt from the blue, this is a great, big, mesmerizing read, audaciously envisioned as classic Americana." - Janet Maslin 06/08/2008 "[A] classic coming-of-age story with an ironic twist. Sustained by a momentum that has the crushing inevitability of fate, the propulsive narrative will have readers sucked in all the way through the breathtaking final scenes." (starred review) 02/18/2008 "A stately, wonderfully written debut novel...Highly recommended." 04/01/2008 |
| Awards |
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2008) |  | finalist, Art Seidenbaum First Fiction Award | | |
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