Description |
697 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. |
Series |
Thorndike Press large print basic
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Summary |
Following a physical assault, Stan "Wheeler" Burden is precipitated into the past-1897 Vienna, to be exact-from 1988 San Francisco. Wheeler has been a teenage baseball star and famed rock 'n' roller, but he's dreamed of Vienna since his prep school days, where his teacher, Arnauld Esterhazy, instilled a love of the city's gilded paradoxes. Vienna of 1897 is indeed hopping: Freud is discovering the Oedipus complex, Mahler is conducting his symphonies, and the mayor, Karl Lueger, is inventing modern, populist anti-Semitism-which the young Hitler will soon internalize. Making this a true oedipal drama, Wheeler's father and grandparents come to town, too, all at different ages, and with very different agendas... |
Note |
GMD: large print. |
Subject |
Rock musicians -- Fiction.
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Time travel -- Fiction.
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Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 1867-1918 -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Large type books.
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ISBN |
9781410412676 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1410412679 hardcover alkaline paper |
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