Most important of all, he understood why Shultz had so mysteriously abandoned the farm: he'd grown lonely." In time, by thought alone, Edgar constructed an image of Schulz so detailed he needn't even squint his eyes to call it up.
It made him want to peel open every wall, see what might be written along the roofline, under the stairs, above the doors. The motivation of the characters was almost always nonexistent or wholly inadequate.Įarly on in the book we have this incident: "Edward was shocked to find words inside the walls of his house, scrawled by a man no one had ever seen. The minor characters didn't seem internally consistent. The antagonist, Claude Sawtelle, was so evil he made the book a matter of bathos instead of pathos. The protagonist, Edgar Sawtelle, seemed as mute as his vocal chords. I didn't believe that the characters were realistically drawn. Needless to say, I didn't enjoy his first novel much at all. But it appears he has had more support than he deserves with this first novel, and it will be difficult for him to overcome pride and approach his next project with humility. There are flashes of brilliance in his narrative. Wroblewski has a great future as a writer, I believe, if he keeps at it and learns from his mistakes here. The Story of Edward Sawtelle is a first novel for its author, David Wroblewski.
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