When his mother is bedridden with pneumonia, however, Edgar finds the responsibilities crushing. The coroner suggests an aneurysm but cannot be certain.Įdgar and his mother vow to maintain the farm. Days later, Edgar discovers his father sprawled on the floor of the barn struggling to breathe. After a few weeks, Claude departs abruptly. Although Edgar is never sure why, he senses his father and his uncle do not get along. When Edgar is 12, his uncle Claude returns to the farm. The boy, born mute, establishes deep connections with several of the family’s prized dogs, and Gar gives his son the opportunities at a young age to train them. He marries Gertrude (Trudy), and the couple has one child, a son they name Edgar. With the onset of the Korean War, Claude, never enamored with the dog breeding business, departs the farm to serve in the navy. In the late 1940s, Brothers Gar (short for Edgar) and Claude Sawtelle grow up on their family’s northern Wisconsin farm where the family, drawing on cutting-edge genetic theories, breeds dogs.
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