Review
'Stately and expansive...Wroblewski's story builds on foundations provided by past literature but has an originality all its own.'
--Sunday Times
HarperCollins
‘The plot echoes Hamlet, but it is the writing that makes it one of the best books I have read in the last few years.’
The Boston Globe
'Whether you read for the beauty of the language or the intricacies of the plot, you will easily fall in love with X’s generous, almost transcendentally lovely debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle ... The scope of this novel, its psychological insight and lyrical mastery make it one of the best novels of the year, and a perfect, comforting joy of a book for the summer.’
Oprah Magazine
'...a big-hearted novel you can fall into, get lost in and finally emerge from reluctantly, a little surprised that the real world went on spinning while you were absorbed. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is an enormous but effortless read, trimmed down to the elements of a captivating story about a mute boy and his dogs.
Washington Post Book World
'The Great American Novel is something like a unicorn – rare and wonderful, and maybe no more than just a notion. Yet every few years or so, we trip across some semblance of one. Oof! What’s this? Why, it’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, a sprawling skein of a yarn about a farm nestled up against the forest primeval, aka the Chequamegon in northern Wisconsin, a place where the drama of nature unfolds daily, ceaselessly—recorded here with preternatural awareness, as if witnessed for the very first time…the story’s both more complicated than it sounds and yet boldly, bald-facedly what it is. How Edgar in time goes about breaking this domestic impasse and strikes out into the wide world will carry you through this novel’s 560-odd pellucid, mythos-riddled pages and leave you crying for more.
Elle Magazine
'Sustained by a momentum that has the crushing inevitability of fate, the propulsive will have readers sucked in all the way through breathtaking final scenes.'
Publishers Weekly
'A stately, wonderfully written debut novel... (Wroblewski) takes an intense interest in them; and sets them in motion with graceful language ... a boon for dog lovers, and for fans of storytelling that eschews flash. Highly recommended.'
Kirkus Review
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