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June 2009
On Sale: May 26, 2009
416 pages
ISBN: 0452295513
EAN: 9780452295513
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Fiction Family Life
Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards’s 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.
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