LEADER 00000nam 2200000 a 4500 001 ocn261404106 003 OCoLC 005 20090129135639.0 008 080925r20092008meu d 000 1 eng 010 2008042337 020 9781410412676|qhardcover|qalkaline paper 020 1410412679|qhardcover|qalkaline paper 035 (OCoLC)261404106 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dGUJ 043 e-au--- 049 GUJA 050 10 PS3605.D8985|bL58 2009 082 813/.6|222 100 1 Edwards, Selden. 245 14 The little book /|cSelden Edwards. 264 1 Waterville, Me. :|bThorndike Press,|c2009. 264 1 |c2008. 300 697 pages (large print) ;|c22 cm. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 490 0 Thorndike Press large print basic 500 GMD: large print. 520 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... 650 0 Rock musicians|vFiction. 650 0 Time travel|vFiction. 651 0 Vienna (Austria)|xHistory|y1867-1918|vFiction. 655 0 Large type books. 994 02|bGUJ
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