Selden Edwards The Little Book: A Novel, Hard Cover

A marvelous debut novel about love and basketball, time travel and rock'n'roll. Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards' dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burden-banking heir, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero-one day finds himself wandering not in his hometown of San Francisco in 1988 but in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: Vienna, 1897. Before long, Wheeler acquires a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young woman, and encounters everyone from an eight-year-old Adolf Hitler to Mark Twain as well as the young members of his own family. Solving the riddle of Wheeler's dislocation in time will ultimately reveal nothing short of one eccentric family's unrivaled impact upon the course of human history. Edwards brilliantly weaves romance, art, sci-fi, history, and culture in this unforgettable debut novel. A great YA read for those looking for a true adventure ASIN: B0017SWQN8 Publisher: Plume (August 14, 2008) Publication date: August 14, 2008 Language: English File size: 2245 KB Text-to-Speech: Enabled copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Print length: 505 pages He is also the author of THE LOST PRINCE, a prequel/sequel, the WW1 part of the Burden family saga, published in 2012. He is working on a third novel, the WW2 part of his story.