The morning he signed the papers he rode one of his ponies along the logging road to his new property and picked out a spot in a clearing below a hill and by nightfall a workable pole stable stood on that ground. As he helped unpile logs to extract the wretched man's remains, Schultz remembered a pretty parcel of land he'd spied north and west of Mellen. Twenty tons of rolling maple buried a man where Schultz had stood the moment before. Many of the dogs then head out into the wilderness like Edgar had before, determined to take their chances.In the year 1919, Edgar's grandfather, who was born with an extra share of whimsy, bought their land and all the buildings on it from a man he'd never met, a man named Schultz, who in his turn had walked away from a logging team half a decade earlier after seeing the chains on a fully loaded timber sled let go.
Yet in the end, Edgar is killed by Claude and Claude is killed by a collapsing barn. Edgar than flees with three dogs into the wilderness, ultimately returning home determined to evict his uncle. Gar's ghost appears to his son and Edgar is determined to confront his uncle, but accidentally kills family friend and local veterinarian Doctor Papineau. However, old animosity between Gar and his brother Claude resurfaces, resulting in Claude's murdering Gar.
Edgar's Uncle Claude comes to stay at the farm for a while following his leaving the Navy.
David Wroeblewski's "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" has been described as a modern American retelling of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." The novel deals with the life and events surrounding Edgar Sawtelle, a mute teenager who has the special ability to wordlessly communicate with dogs through hand signs.Įdgar lives in northern Wisconsin with his mother Trudy and father Gar on the Sawtelle family farm where they raise a fictional breed of dogs.
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