The Little Book
by Selden Edwards
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Author: Selden EdwardsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-14
ISBN: 0525950613
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Book Reviews of The Little Book
Book Review: Perfect Book Club Fodder
Summary: 5 Stars
I wish my book club would have chosen this book! So many surprises, twists, and turns to discuss and mull over. Never boring and the characters are fascinating and ultimately very likable - even when they're shocking.
Summary of The Little Book
An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, The Little Book is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de si?cle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the twentieth century.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-Jew, 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 si?cle 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.
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