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1st, signed by the author, The Little Book by Selden Edwards (2008), time travel
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Special Attributes
- Signed, 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject
- Science Fiction
- Title/Series
- The Little Book
- ISBN
- 9780525950615
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525950613
ISBN-13
9780525950615
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66073412
Product Key Features
Book Title
Little Book
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Historical
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-045785
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Selden Edwards’s impressive debut novel is richly inventive, woven tightly with incident, and fully engaging. It is also superbly humane and readable” —Richard Ford ”Selden Edwards’s The Little Bookis a wonderful novel and I think it has a chance to become a famous one. I’ve never read a novel like it. And I felt like my life was changing forever as I savored its many delights and mysteries.” —Pat Conroy, Selden Edwards’s impressive debut novel is richly inventive, woven tightly with incident, and fully engaging. It is also superbly humane and readable” —Richard Ford ”Selden Edwards’s The Little Bookis a wonderful novel and I think it has a chance to become a famous one. I’ve never read a novel like it. And I felt like my life was changing forever as I savored its many delights and mysteries.” —Pat Conroy The Little Book is named as one of two first-time novelists I’m looking forward to becoming acquainted with,” in a list by Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Marchand the recent People of the Bookin the Wall Street Journal Weekend A major BEA galley to grab… This novel ends up a sweet, wistful elegy to the fantastic promise and failed hopes of the 20th century.” —Publishers Weekly "A work that feels effortless... Part mystery, part meditation on the marriage of past and present, part love letter to a bygone era, the novel moves fluidly through time and place, belying its three- decade creation." —PlayboyMagazine Not every summer volume is a throwaway beach book, quickly skimmed and quickly forgotten. Herewith, promising, (mostly) substantive reads… Written over 30 years, Selden Edwards’s The Little Book(Dutton, August 14) dumps ’70s rock star Wheeler Burden in late 19th-century Vienna, where he tangles with Freud, Mahler, and growing anti-Semitism.” —The Boston Phoenix If you like time travel, romance, and fin de siecle Vienna, this is your summer book. A San Francisco heir and philosopher suddenly finds himself in 1897 where he meets Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, and his own father.” —From Marjorie Kehe’s summer book roundup in the Christian Science Monitor An ideal late summer reading getaway…. The Little Bookis all about plot—that’s what makes it both an entertaining mental escape and a tough book to do justice to in a review….The Little Book is…a soaring thing of joy whose only purpose — and I mean this as a compliment — is to delight and entertain.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR As you might expect, The Little Bookis anything but little. This is a wide-ranging novel of grand ideas, of the promise of the new century, now so far behind us. It is a story of fathers and sons, to be sure, of the bygone days when an American aristocracy held the reins of power. And it is a tale of books within books, and their influence upon history. But Edwards has a wonderfully subversive way with all this; along with the great men of the era, he creates astonishing female characters. The Burden women, who marry into the family after living rich, full lives of their own, have their tales to tell, too. All this swirls around in a graceful waltz of a book, spinning at times at dizzying speed, but leaving behind a haunting, unforgettable melody.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune The Little Bookis presented with undeniable brio. Enthusiasts of Vienna and narratives of time travel are in for a thrilling adventure.” —San Francisco Chronicle Take a pinch of Mitch Albom's For One More Dayand The Five People You Meet in Heaven(for an impossible chance to make amends or peace), draw a little from Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Timeand H.G. Wells' The Time Machine(for the potential of a twist on the physical universe as we know it), on the upscale side borrow a bit from Michael Cunningham's The Hours(for clever paralleling of extremely different contexts), hark back to E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime(for commingling historical and fictional characters) and throw in a heady dollop of romantic mooni
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, The Little Book is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siècle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the twentieth century. The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legend’s son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 he is forty-seven, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he is—still his modern self—wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: fin de siècle Vienna. It is 1897, precisely ninety-one years before his last memory and a half-century before his birth. It’s not long before Wheeler has acquired appropriate clothes, money, lodging, a group of young Viennese intellectuals as friends, a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young American woman, a passing acquaintance with local celebrity Mark Twain, and an incredible and surprising insight into the dashing young war-hero father he never knew. But the truth at the center of Wheeler’s dislocation in time remains a stubborn mystery that will take months of exploration and a lifetime of memories to unravel and that will, in the end, reveal nothing short of the eccentric Burden family’s unrivaled impact on the very course of the coming century. The Little Book is a masterpiece of unequaled storytelling that announces Selden Edwards as one of the most dazzling, original, entertaining, and inventive novelists of our time.
LC Classification Number
PS3605.D8985F56 2008
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- 8***r (755)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseJust what I was looking for. A+ Thanks for shipping quickly.
- d***k (482)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe chapbook arrived exactly as described, well packaged, and as new. Very pleased with this purchase and this seller. Look forward to doing business with them again. Thank you.
- a***k (134)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem was in perfect condition!