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 author of The Lost Prince brilliantly weaves romance art history and culture in this unforgettable and dazzling debut novel.From the Trade Paperback edition.
