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The Little Book
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The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legend s son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 he is forty-seven, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he is still his modern self wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: fin de siècle Vienna. It is 1897, precisely ninety-one years before his last memory and a half-century before his birth.
It s not long before Wheeler has acquired appropriate clothes, money, lodging, a group of young Viennese intellectuals as friends, a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young American woman, a passing acquaintance with local celebrity Mark Twain, and an incredible and surprising insight into the dashing young war-hero father he never knew.
But the truth at the center of Wheeler s dislocation in time remains a stubborn mystery that will take months of exploration and a lifetime of memories to unravel and that will, in the end, reveal nothing short of the eccentric Burden family s unrivaled impact on the very course of the coming century. The Little Book is a masterpiece of unequaled storytelling that announces Selden Edwards as one of the most dazzling, original, entertaining, and inventive novelists of our time.
Product details
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2008-08-20
Publication Date:
2008-08-20
Publisher:
Penguin US
Languages:
Published:
English,
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0525950613
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
612 g
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