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David Wroblewski burst onto the literary scene last summer with his debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. The 600+ page novel, a “spellbinding first novel…nearly impossible to put down” (Kirkus Reviews), follows the life of Edgar, a mute boy who grows up on a dog breeding farm in Wisconsin. Richard Russo writes, “I doubt we’ll see a finer literary debut this year....Wroblewski’s got storytelling talent to burn and a big, generous heart to go with it”; Stephen King says, “I flat out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle....I don’t reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one.” The Washington Post Book World calls it a “big-hearted novel you can fall into, get lost in and finally emerge from reluctantly, a little surprised that the real world went on spinning.” The novel, a New York Times bestseller, was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. Wroblewski grew up in Wisconsin and wrote the book, he said, because he wished he could read a novel about a boy and a dog “flavored with the uncynical Midwestern sense of heart and purpose so familiar from my childhood." General admission tickets: $5, on sale January 4, 2010 Click here for tickets and details.