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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 Edwardsβs dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burdenβbanking heir, philosopher, student of history, legendβs son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball heroβone 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 Wheelerβs dislocation in time will ultimately reveal nothing short of one eccentric familyβs unrivaled impact upon the course of human history.
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