[TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Please login or register to view links Bác học Please login or register to view links Tham gia ngày: Dec 2006 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi, Vietnam Bài gởi: 1,109 Xin cảm ơn: 667 Được cảm ơn 25,427 lần trong 1,010 bài Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski [HR][/HR] The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Please login or register to view links) A novel by Please login or register to view links "[SIZE=-1]I flat-out loved it.[/SIZE]" [SIZE=-1]Please login or register to view links[/SIZE] Oprah Book Club 62 Trích: [TABLE="width: 100%"] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Please login or register to view links: It's gutsy for a debut novelist to offer a modern take onHamlet set in rural Wisconsin--particularly one in which the young hero, born mute, communicates with people, dogs, and the occasional ghost through his own mix of sign and body language. But David Wroblewski's extraordinary way with language in The Story of Edgar Sawtelle immerses readers in a living, breathing world that is both fantastic and utterly believable. In selecting for temperament and a special intelligence, Edgar's grandfather started a line of unusual dogs--the Sawtelles--and his sons carried on his work. But among human families, undesirable traits aren't so easily predicted, and clashes can erupt with tragic force. Edgar's tale takes you to the extremes of what humans must endure, and when you're finally released, you will come back to yourself feeling wiser, and flush with gratitude. And you will have remembered what magnificent alchemy a finely wrought novel can work. --Mari Malcolm[/TD] [/TABLE] Trích: [TABLE="width: 100%"] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Praise from Stephen King"I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, and spent twelve happy evenings immersed in the world David Wroblewski has created. As I neared the end, I kept finding excuses to put the book aside for a little, not because I didn't like it, but because I liked it too much; I didn't want it to end. 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. I closed the book with that regret readers feel only after experiencing the best stories: It's over, you think, and I won't read another one this good for a long, long time. In truth, there's never been a book quite like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I thought of Hamletwhen I was reading it, and Watership Down, and The Night of the Hunter, and The Life of Pi--but halfway through, I put all comparisons aside and let it just be itself. I'm pretty sure this book is going to be a bestseller, but unlike some, it deserves to be. It's also going to be the subject of a great many reading groups, and when the members take up Edgar, I think they will be apt to stick to the book and forget the neighborhood gossip. Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world. I envy them the trip. I don't re-read many books, because life is too short. I will be re-reading this one."[/TD] [/TABLE] Trích: [TABLE="width: 100%"] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm—and into Edgar's mother's affections. Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father's death, but his plan backfires—spectacularly. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm, Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his father's murderer and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs turn Edgar ever homeward. David Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes—the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain—create a riveting family saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic.[/TD] [/TABLE] Đây là một quyển sách đáng để đọc. Tuy biết đến nó lâu rồi, nhưng đến giờ mới tìm được [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment David Wroblewski - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.zip Nguồn TVE
