The Little Book

The Little Book

by SeldenEdwards (Author)

Synopsis

Wheeler Burden is the last heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens; he's also a philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew and Harvard baseball hero. Wheeler lives in San Francisco, and so it is with some surprise that he comes to one day in 1897 Vienna where, coincidentally, it's 91 years before his last memory and half a century before his own birth. Indeed, it's a shock to realise that he's now older than his father (a WW2 hero), and indeed much older than his grandfather (a man of rather uncertain temper). And when Wheeler meets the delectable Wheezie, and they fall in love, things start to get complicated - and then some - once Wheeler discovers Wheezie holds the key to a crucial secret, a secret she's completely oblivious to...Helped (or hindered) by, among others, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Gustav Mahler and Buddy Holly, Wheeler has to unravel a lifetime of memories before he can discover who he really is or what's gone on

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 06 Nov 2008

ISBN 10: 0349121710
ISBN 13: 9780349121710

Media Reviews
'Edwards has great fun with time travel paradoxes and anachronisms, but the real romance in the book is with the period ... This novel ends up a sweet, wistful elegy to the fantastic promise and failed hopes of the 20th century' Publishers Weekly 'Richly inventive, woven tightly with incident, and fully engaging ... superbly humane and readable' Richard Ford 'A wonderful novel' Pat Conroy 'Pulls a Back to the Future on the Vienna that produced The Interpretation of Dreams and, eventually, Mein Kampf - with a little Bill & Ted thrown in for good measure' Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Selden Edwards lives in California, and is a retired headmaster. The Little Book is his first novel.