The Little Book

Edwards, Selden

ISBN 10: 0143143514 ISBN 13: 9780143143512

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2008

Synopsis

The exiled scion of a prominent Boston banking family, forty-seven-year-old Wheeler Burden is living in 1988 San Francisco until he is mysteriously transported to fin de siècle Vienna, a city that he finds strangely familiar, where he finds a mentor in Sigmund Freud, falls in love with a young American woman, and gains insight into the war-hero father he never knew. A first novel. Simultaneous.

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Review:

** '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)

Book Description:

* An irresistible time-travelling romp about a displaced 20th-century man who finds himself in Vienna in the 1890s - it's a wonderful look at fathers and sons, as well as a cracking love story

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143143514
• ISBN 13: 9780143143512
• Binding: Audio CD