Audio Book Description:
An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making. THE LITTLE BOOK is the extraordinary tale of WheelerBurden. 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-still hismodern self-is wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: fin de siecle Vienna. It is 1897, precisely ninety-one years beforehis last memory and half a century before his own birth. Wheeler soon acquires appropriate clothes, money, lodging, a mentor in Sigmund Freud,a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young woman, and an incredible and surprising insight into the war- hero father he never knew. But thetruth at the center of Wheeler`s dislocation in time remains a stubborn mystery that will take a lifetime of memories to unravel and that will, inthe end, reveal nothing short of the eccentric Burden family`s unrivaled impact upon thevery course of human history. THE LITTLE BOOK announcesSelden Edwards as one of the most dazzling, original, entertaining, and inventive novelists of our time.
