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Dans une ferme isol e au nord du Wisconsin, le jeune Edgar Sawtelle grandit entre son p re et sa m re, avec lesquels il ne peut communiquer que par le langage des signes. Depuis deux g n rations, les Sawtelle l vent et dressent une race de chiens d'exception, dont Almondine, l'amie de toujours d'Edgar, est un merveilleux sp cimen. Mais l'arriv e de Claude, l'oncle du gar on, va perturber la qui tude du foyer... R cit initiatique, roman des grands espaces am ricains, L'Histoire d'Edgar Sawtelle, salu e par une critique unanime, a d j touch plus de deux millions de lecteurs aux tats-Unis.Ce roman aux allures de conte cruel est une merveille, un voyage dans le royaume du silence dont un petit gar on muet est le prince bless . Andr Clavel, Lire.On serait presque jaloux de ceux qui ne l'ont pas encore lu. Elvire Emptaz, Elle.Il m'arrive rarement de relire un livre. Je relirai celui-ci. Stephen King.… (plus d'informations)
LDVoorberg: If you read and liked The Maestro as a teen, as an you'll probably like at least Part 2 of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle because of the adventure/survival aspect to the plot.
This is a very interesting book. I enjoyed reading it for the most part. I did not like the ending and felt frustrated with the author for building up my hopes that the resolution might be brighter. I am glad I read it as it was thought provoking and my understanding of many things was expanded. ( )
Edgar Sawtelle is born able to hear but unable to speak. Consequently he withdraws from human companionship and forms his closest bonds with the family dogs. Unlike the humans in Edgar's life, the loyalty of the dogs is unwavering and in the end the dogs are left standing tall, proud and free while the humans are left dead, blind, or insane. The end may have been a bit too melodramatic, but it was very fitting. ( )
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a dutiful procession through the main events of [Hamlet]. The Mousetrap scene, in which Edgar trains his dogs to act out his father’s murder in front of Claude, is marvelous—Wroblewski loves writing about dogs and he’s great at it—but the other pages are still covered by translucent drafter’s blueprints. Here’s Polonius, the meddler, here’s Laertes, the avenging son, and so on. (The Laertes figure isn’t introduced until page 489 and he’s as puzzled as the rest of us about why he’s supposed to kill a fourteen-year-old boy.) Wroblewski is only at pains to apply himself when there’s a chance his characters might become complicated and unsympathetic.
Ultimately liberating, though tragic and heart-wrenching, this book is unforgettable; overwhelmingly recommended for all libraries.
ajouté par Katya0133 | modifierLibrary Journal, Henry Bankhead(Mar 15, 2008)
Sustained by a momentum that has the crushing inevitability of fate, the propulsive narrative will have readers sucked in all the way through the breathtaking final scenes.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ~Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
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For Arthur and Ann Wroblewski
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After dark the rain began to fall again, but he had already made up his mind to go and anyway it had been raining for weeks.
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High in the crown of a charred tree, an owl revolved its dished face, and one branch down, three small replicas followed.
He thought of his father standing in the barn doorway peering skyward as a thunderstorm approached, while his mother shouted, ‘Gar, get indoors, for God’s sake.’ That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn’t matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. … It was not a morbid thought, just the world as it existed. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn’t.
He’d left in confusion, but his return was clarifying. So much of what had been obscure while he faced away was now evident. … So much of the world was governed by chance. … Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by. … Some things were certain—they had already happened—but the future would not be divined. … The future was no ally. A person had only his life to barter with.
Most people thought training meant forcing their will on a dog. Or that training required some magical gift. Both ideas were wrong. Real training meant watching, listening, diverting a dog’s exuberance, not suppressing it. You couldn’t change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.
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Essay stepped into the grass. She stood, paw lifted to her chest, nose raised to scent the air, watching it all. For an instant, as the morning light brightened, everything in the field stood motionless. She looked behind her one last time, into the forest and along the way they'd come, and when she was sure all of them were together now and no others would appear, she turned and made her choice and began to cross.
Dans une ferme isol e au nord du Wisconsin, le jeune Edgar Sawtelle grandit entre son p re et sa m re, avec lesquels il ne peut communiquer que par le langage des signes. Depuis deux g n rations, les Sawtelle l vent et dressent une race de chiens d'exception, dont Almondine, l'amie de toujours d'Edgar, est un merveilleux sp cimen. Mais l'arriv e de Claude, l'oncle du gar on, va perturber la qui tude du foyer... R cit initiatique, roman des grands espaces am ricains, L'Histoire d'Edgar Sawtelle, salu e par une critique unanime, a d j touch plus de deux millions de lecteurs aux tats-Unis.Ce roman aux allures de conte cruel est une merveille, un voyage dans le royaume du silence dont un petit gar on muet est le prince bless . Andr Clavel, Lire.On serait presque jaloux de ceux qui ne l'ont pas encore lu. Elvire Emptaz, Elle.Il m'arrive rarement de relire un livre. Je relirai celui-ci. Stephen King.
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