Details
Rent The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Oprah's Book Club)
Author:
Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Ecco
Published: Sep 2009
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $22.00
Pages: 608
Synopsis
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life on his family's farm in remote northern Wisconsin where they raise and train an extraordinary breed of dog. But when tragedy strikes, Edgar is forced to flee into the vast neighboring wilderness, accompanied by only three yearling pups. Struggling for survival, Edgar comes of age in the wild, and must face the choice of leaving forever or revealing the terrible truth behind what has happened. A riveting family saga as well as a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is destined to become a modern classic.
by Anita Shreve
A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots...
by Sara Gruen
Jacob Jankowski, 90 years old and living in a nursing home, tells how, orphaned and penniless during the Great Depression, he became an animal trainer...
by Jodi Picoult
Things break all the time.Day breaks, waves break, voices break.Promises break.Hearts break.Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want...
by Jodi Picoult
Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth? One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward...
by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Set in 1956, this is the story of Icy, a 10-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome who has been raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky by her...
by Jodi Picoult
Delia Hopkins is living a placid enough life in New Hampshire with her little daughter, and is about to finally marry the child's father, Eric, a...
by Jodi Picoult
Best known for tackling controversial issues through richly told fictional accounts, Jodi Picoult's 14th novel, Nineteen Minutes, deals with the...
by Cormac McCarthy
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing...
Reviews
This debut novel is the engrossing story of a mute boy, his family and the special breed of dogs they raise. After a fatal accident on their northern plains farm, Edgar and three of his dogs try to make their way to Canada. Taking no supplies, they must live off the land until an eccentric farmer takes them in.There's a Huckleberry Finn feel to this boy and his odyssey. The writing is compelling. I read rapidly, and I couldn't put this book down for the several days it took me to read it. I hope Edgar Wrobleski has another novel this good in his repetoire