

- Fiction, Rock musicians, Time travel, History
The exiled scion of a prominent Boston family, forty-seven-year-old Wheeler Burden is living in 1988 San Francisco until he is mysteriously transported to fin de siècle Vienna, a city that he finds strangely familiar, where he finds a mentor in Sigmund Freud.
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Grave, classical in form, cool and raw.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Selden Edwards
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 411
- Publisher
- Plume, Dutton, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349121727
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