- Paperback: 405 pages
- Publisher: Plume Books; Reprint edition (26 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0452295513
- ISBN-13: 978-0452295513
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,742,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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** 'Edwards has great fun with time travel paradoxes and anachronisms, but the real romance in the book is with the period ... This novel ends up a sweet, wistful elegy to the fantastic promise and failed hopes of the 20th century (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY )
** 'Richly inventive, woven tightly with incident, and fully engaging ... superbly humane and readable (Richard Ford )
** 'A wonderful novel (Pat Conroy )
** 'Pulls a Back to the Future on the Vienna that produced The Interpretation of Dreams and, eventually, Mein Kampf - with a little Bill & Ted thrown in for good measure (Publishers Weekly ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
** 'Richly inventive, woven tightly with incident, and fully engaging ... superbly humane and readable (Richard Ford )
** 'A wonderful novel (Pat Conroy )
** 'Pulls a Back to the Future on the Vienna that produced The Interpretation of Dreams and, eventually, Mein Kampf - with a little Bill & Ted thrown in for good measure (Publishers Weekly ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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* An irresistible time-travelling story about a displaced 20th-century man who finds himself in Vienna in the 1890s - it's a wonderful look at fathers and sons, as well as a cracking love story
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book looked very promising when I read what it was about, and I was looking forward to reading it. I very rarely give up on a book, but I had to give up on this one when I was nearly half-way through. There were some awfully long descriptions in minute detail of baseball games, which I have to say bored me rigid. I would imagine you would have to be a fan to enjoy those. Perhaps one game would have been bearable, but there are quite a few of them that you have to 'read' through. None of the characters particularly interested me or even came across as very credible. Not for me.
Format:Hardcover
In "A Little Book," what comes round goes round and round and round...and comes back again.
Shelden Edward's novel is an exquisite time machine that feeds itself events which provide the impulse for later events, and earlier ones, too.
A case for the interrelatedness between persons and epochs alike.
The main trunk to this story, with significant secondary branches, follows '70s hippy rocker Wheeler Burden on a time travel trip through the fin de sciecle Vienna of Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Gustav Mahler.
Edwards brings to life the intellectual ferment that powered the Austrian capital's rise to prominence in the worlds of music, philosophy, painting, and psychiatry of the time, without being so smart as to turn off those who've come simply to savor a fine tale.
For texture and plot-thickening, the author takes advantage of his time-travel meme to visit the stuffy and WASPy world of a New England prep school, and the more open-aired environment of the Sacramento Valley.
While dabbling in matters both deep and cosmetic, mixing Frisbees with Austrian empresses, and '70s rock with the rise of anti-Semitic thought in Europe, this complex novel sustains a comfortable readability throughout.
The author is masterful in his handling of deep and important subjects in a most entertaining way.
Shelden Edward's novel is an exquisite time machine that feeds itself events which provide the impulse for later events, and earlier ones, too.
A case for the interrelatedness between persons and epochs alike.
The main trunk to this story, with significant secondary branches, follows '70s hippy rocker Wheeler Burden on a time travel trip through the fin de sciecle Vienna of Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Gustav Mahler.
Edwards brings to life the intellectual ferment that powered the Austrian capital's rise to prominence in the worlds of music, philosophy, painting, and psychiatry of the time, without being so smart as to turn off those who've come simply to savor a fine tale.
For texture and plot-thickening, the author takes advantage of his time-travel meme to visit the stuffy and WASPy world of a New England prep school, and the more open-aired environment of the Sacramento Valley.
While dabbling in matters both deep and cosmetic, mixing Frisbees with Austrian empresses, and '70s rock with the rise of anti-Semitic thought in Europe, this complex novel sustains a comfortable readability throughout.
The author is masterful in his handling of deep and important subjects in a most entertaining way.
Format:Paperback
I love this book. It feels like a piece of magic. It's not the time traveller's wife, though, so if you want an easy, fast-paced read don't come here. This is a slow, rich read. Don't rush it. I love it (I say again :-)
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Selden Edwards, apparently, took 35 years to write this dismal piece of drivel. He started writing at age 25, but I suspect that he conceived the idea at the age of 15. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2010 by The Critical "I"
Enjoyable, Educational Escapism
These are my favourite types of books, a truely exciting displacement in time! Something I wish I had the power to do. Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2009 by Amanda Denham
The Little Book With A Great Heart
Don't be fooled by the title!
This is a big book in every way: a book that will tick all the boxes and cling to your memory from the moment you turn the last page. Read more
This is a big book in every way: a book that will tick all the boxes and cling to your memory from the moment you turn the last page. Read more
Published on 30 May 2009 by Mr. John Frank Herbert
Great read
A truely lovely and unique story. I found this book completely by accident and I am so glad I did - loved every second and highly recommend it.
Published on 30 Jan 2009 by Willows
Cant agree with the other reviewers...
Having enjoyed "The Time traveller's wife" i was recommended this book but was very disappointed with it. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2009 by David
No More Heroes
Over 30 years in the making, the care and detail lavished in Selden Edwards's debut novel is evident the love for which he depicts the splendour of turn-of-the-century Vienna,... Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2008 by Keris Nine
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