![]() ![]() Hamlet is one of my favorite plays - I saw the movie version starring Laurence Olivier many times in college, and I was also briefly a theater major, so that’s how my interest in it began. Was that a deliberate decision on your part? ![]() Edgar’s mother is named Trudy (Gertrude), his uncle is Claude (for Claudius), and even Almondine, a dog, bears some resemblance to Ophelia. The parallels between Edgar Sawtelle and Hamlet are very striking. Wroblewski spoke to Vulture from his Colorado home about his literary influences, reader preconceptions, and why authors feel compelled to write about their dogs. But David Wroblewski’s sweet, suspenseful (nearly 600-page) story, about a mute teenager and his faithful companion, his dog Almondine, begs for more than just buzz. When a debut novel arrives with a rapturous blurb from Stephen King, as The Story of Edgar Sawtelle does, it’s hard not to, at least, well, give it a look - and that was before the book scored a glowing review in the Times. ![]()
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