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Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780525950615
ISBN: 0525950613
Label: Dutton Adult
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2008-08-14
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Studio: Dutton Adult
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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 siècle 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 siècle 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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Summary: Enchanting
Comment: From the first, this book engaged me. There are times when books I read for book club are not that easy to read. This is a book I would have enjoyed reading without the assignment: The characters were rich and complex, and the storyline original. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Very good read
Comment: I started this book out slow, stopped in the first chapter and then picked it up again. Very happy I did, as I enjoyed it greatly. I thought the author put all the connections together perfectly. I recommend this book!
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Summary: the connectedness of all things
Comment: I enjoyed this book quite a bit. The author's circle of connecting events and people facinated me. I look forward to more books from this talented writer.
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Summary: An amazing fiction.
Comment: The Little Book by Selden Edwards is one of the most engaging novels I have ever read, and I read around two novels per week. Immensely erudite, literate, and researched in minute detail, it is an education in the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as it morphed into Hitler's Germany, as much as it is also an intriguing love story, a psychological study of mankind's micro-and-macrocosms, and a science fiction story nonpareil. 33 years in the writing, it is a complex and convoluted tale that leaves us wondering about the very nature of reality and the afterlife. I can't recommend it enough for readers of literature.
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Summary: Must Read - a personal adventure
Comment: Much more than a fascinating story - there is something very personal about Edwards' writing that sets it apart and above. Those who let this "little book" inside will love it; those who choose not to, well, see their reviews.
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