Oprah Winfrey announced Friday she’d chosen David Wroblewski’s “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” as her latest book club pick, calling the debut novel a classic and the “best novel I’ve read in a long, long, long time.”
“I think this book is right up there with the greatest American novels ever written, I really do,” said Winfrey at the end of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Winfrey raved for several minutes about the novel, comparing it to the work of John Steinbeck and even, she said, Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
“I will say that, yes I said it,” Winfrey said.
Sales Rank
Amazon has a sales rank of 24 for the book right now. By midnight eastern time it should be in the top three books on Amazon.
Link to book on Amazon: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
#3
Was #3 by 7pm. Is at #1 now.
See: http://charteo.us/amzn/items/0061768065
Bad reviews
Book has gotten a lot of bad reviews on Amazon.
See: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62)
Similar to The Corrections
This is only the second Oprah book that I’d already heard of via rave reviews in the highbrow press. But yeah, I’d expect a long list of negative Amazon reviews just on general principle.
the story of edgar sawtelle
I LOVED reading this book, it was just such a gorgeous read.
but then i got to the end and not only does it NOT make sense, and not only is it horrible depressing, its unfair and it was uncalled for!
i feel totally betrayed by the author who took us for a ride and then dropped us off the edge of a hill.
i was going to recmonned this book to everyone but now i cant. its too depressing.