DAVID WROBLEWSKI
Friday, July 11 at 8 p.m.

One of the year's big fiction debuts, in more ways than one, is that of David Wroblewski with his extraordinary coming-of-age (and more) novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Ecco). "In this beautifully written novel, David Wroblewski creates a remarkable hero who lives in a world populated as much by dogs as by humans, governed as much by the past as by the present. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a passionate, absorbing and deeply surprising debut." - Margot Livesey. "I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle ... Dog-lovers in particular will find themselves riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination and emotional resonance. Yet in the end, this isn't a novel about dogs or heartland America—although it is a deeply American work of literature. It's a novel about the human heart, and the mysteries that live there, understood but impossible to articulate. Yet in the person of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy who takes three of his dogs on a brave and dangerous odyssey, Wroblewski does articulate them, and splendidly ... Wonderful, mysterious, long, and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world." - Stephen King.

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