1 March 2012

The Little Book by Selden Edwards

This my very first English novel that I read.....

'A breathtaking love story that spans generations,
ranging from fin-de-siécle Vienna through the pivotal
moments of the twentieth century'

The Sneak Peek

The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden - banking heir , rock idol , and Harvard baseball hero . Wheeler suddenly finds himself dislocated in time and space from 1988 San Francisco to Vienna in the year 1897 . It is precisely ninety-one years before his last memory and a half century before his birth.

 It's not long before Wheeler encounters local residents Mark Twain  , Gustav Mahler and an eager young psychologist named Sigmund Freud. When Wheeler develops a powerful crush on a luminous young woman , it leads to an incredible insight into his own family - and the dashing young war-hero father Wheeler never knew.

While the truth at the center of Wheeler's dislocation in time remain a stubborn mystery , solving it will ultimately reveal the eccentric Burden family's unrivaled impact on the very course of the coming century.


RICHARD FORD describes this novel as
'Richly inventive , woven tightly with incident , and fully engaging' 

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