About the book
Set on a remote northern Wisconsin farm, David Wroblewski's novel follows Edgar Sawtelle, a boy born mute who speaks only in sign. For generations his family has bred and trained a fictional breed of dog, and his own dog, Almondine, is his constant companion and in a way his voice. The household changes when his uncle Claude returns to the farm. The story reworks Shakespeare's Hamlet in a rural setting. A debut novel, it reached the New York Times best-seller list, was chosen for Oprah's Book Club and was among the finalists for an Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
Oprah Winfrey called it engaging and epic and placed it among the greatest American novels, alongside the work of Steinbeck.
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Oprah Winfrey (CEO/Oprah Winfrey Network)
It's so engaging, so gripping, so epic, that I wanted absolutely everybody to share the joy of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle...I think that this is right up there with the greatest American novels ever written. Up there with Steinbeck and even Harper Lee.
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