Familiaris: An Oprah's Book Club Pick by David Wroblewski Hardcover Book

Description: Familiaris by David Wroblewski The new novel from the author of the million copy international bestseller, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description AN OPRAHS BOOK CLUB SELECTION An epic novel... David takes us on an extraordinary journey that brilliantly interweaves history, philosophy, adventure, and mysticism to explore the meaning of love, friendship and living your lifes true purpose Oprah WinfreyA story-telling bonfire as enthralling in its pages as it is illuminating of our fragile and complicated humanity. Familiaris is as expansive and enlightening a saga as has ever been written Tom Hanks Impossibly wise, impossibly ambitious, impossibly beautiful Richard RussoAn American tour de force Colum McCannSpring 1919, and John Sawtelles imagination has got him into trouble...again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsins north woods, where they hope to make a fresh start - and to live a life of meaning, purpose, and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and it will take all their ingenuity, along with a few new friends - human, animal, and otherworldly - to realise their dreams.By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, mysterious and enchanting, Familiaris takes readers on an unforgettable journey from the halls of a small-town automobile factory, through an epic midwestern firestorm and an ambitious WWII dog training program, examining the dynamics of love and friendship, the vexing nature of families, the universal desire to create something lasting and beautiful, and of course, the species-long partnership between Homo sapiens and Canis familiaris. Author Biography David Wroblewski is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, an Oprah Book Club pick, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and winner of the Colorado Book Award, Indie Choice Best Author Discovery award, and the Midwest Bookseller Associations Choice award. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle has been translated into over twenty-five languages. He lives in Colorado with the writer Kimberly McClintock. Review As we discovered last year with The Covenant of Water (over 700 pages), summer is the perfect time to fully immerse yourself in the world of a long novel - just make sure you leave extra room in your carry-on! * Oprah.com *By taking us back to the origins of the Sawtelle family, Wroblewski has set a story-telling bonfire as enthralling in its pages as it is illuminating of our fragile and complicated humanity. Familiaris is as expansive and enlightening a saga that has ever been written * Tom Hanks *Suppose you could do one impossible thing," John Sawtelle says in David Wroblewskis stunning new novel Familiaris. What would you do? Clearly, what the author would do and has done is write this impossibly wise, impossibly ambitious, impossibly beautiful book * Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of the North Bath trilogy (Nobodys Fool, Everybodys Fool, and Somebodys Fool *Tender, ambitious, fierce, deeply human, and of course wonderfully canine, David Wroblewskis second novel is an American tour de force. A story spun out over generations, to be read for generations, this is a big brave book that is old-fashioned in the very best sense of the word * Colum McCann, National Book Award winner, author of Apeirogon, Let the Great World Spin, and American Mother *This great American novel bustles with life, and if it takes all summer to read it, who cares * Newsday *Spellbinding... this warm, big-hearted novel pays tribute to the joys of curiosity and creation and turns out to be surprisingly funny, even as storm clouds gather on the familys horizon * Minneapolis Star Tribune *David Wroblewski is one of the few contemporary authors who can create a world that the reader doesnt merely visit but fully inhabits. And what a world it is, rich with love and joy and heartbreak. And wonder, especially in the way human and canine form inseparable bonds. It has been a long wait for a new Wroblewski novel. The wait is worth it * Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Caretaker *I adore Familiaris. David Wroblewski is such a wonderfully inventive writer, he knows so much - how to test a tractor, how to make a table, how to borrow money, how to see the future - but best of all he is a writer of extraordinary characters, human and canine, who will take up residence in your mind and heart. A dazzling and irresistible novel * Margot Livesay *A great American novel of people and passions and ideas - and, of course, dogs... Already having drawn comparisons to Russo, Irving, Strout, McCarthy, and Gilbert, with García Márquez added here, Wroblewski earns them all, amply rewarding readers who have been waiting impatiently for 15 years. For all the eons it may take to read it, this colossus of a book will own you, and you will weep to be freed * Kirkus starred review *No writer understands the depths of dogs natures the way David Wroblewski does, and once again we have a vital, absorbing, and remarkable fiction fuelled by this understanding. Familiaris is a rare novel, modest and epic * Joan Silber, National Book Award finalist and author of National Book Critics Circle and Pen Faulkner winner Improvement, and Lucky Us * Details ISBN0349147086 Author David Wroblewski Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780349147086 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-08-29 Imprint Abacus Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-08-29 Pages 992 ISBN-10 0349147086 Subtitle An Oprahs Book Club Pick NZ Release Date 2024-10-07 AU Release Date 2024-10-07 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161350814;

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