The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 566 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A contemporary retelling of Hamlet of stark and striking brilliance set on a farm in remote northern Wisconsin. On a farm in remote northern Wisconsin the mute and brilliant Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents Gar and Trudy. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomised by Almodine, Edgars lifelong companion. But when his beloved father mysteriously dies, Edgar blames himself, if only because his muteness left him unable to summon help. Grief-stricken and bewildered by his mothers desperate affair with her dead husbands brother, Edgars world unravels one spring night when, in the falling rain, he sees his fathers ghost. After a botched attempt to prove that his uncle orchestrated Gars death, Edgar flees into the Chequamegon wilderness leading three yearling dogs. Yet his need to face his fathers murderer, and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs, turn Edgar ever homeward. When he returns, nothing is as he expects, and Edgar must choose between revenge or preserving his family legacy!

ISBN: 9780007265022