The Little Book

The Little Book: A Novel

By: Selden Edwards

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Paperback | 26 May 2009

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Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards's dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burden-banking heir, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero-one day finds himself wandering not in his hometown of San Francisco in 1988 but in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: Vienna, 1897. Before long, Wheeler acquires a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young woman, and encounters everyone from an eight-year-old Adolf Hitler to Mark Twain as well as the young members of his own family. Solving the riddle of Wheeler's dislocation in time will ultimately reveal nothing short of one eccentric family's unrivaled impact upon the course of human history.

Industry Reviews

"A soaring thing of joy whose only purpose-and I mean this as a compliment-is to delight and entertain." -Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air "Delightfully mad. . .a thrilling adventure." -San Francisco Chronicle

"The product of a writer in full command of his gifts." -Louisville Courier-Journal

"A wide-ranging novel of grand ideas. . .a graceful waltz of a book, spinning at times at dizzying speed, but leaving behind a haunting, unforgettable melody." -New Orleans Times-Picayune

"Back to the Future for the intellectual set." -Entertainment Weekly

"Inventive, bracing, poignant and well written. . . it should be at the top of everyone's summer reading list." -Tucson Citizen

"It's hard not to be thoroughly taken with such an approach to both the real and imagined past." -New York Daily News

"Required reading." -New York Post

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