Description: Selden Edwardss impressive debut novel is richly inventive, woven tightly with incident, and fully engaging. It is also superbly humane and readable Richard Ford Selden Edwardss The Little Bookis a wonderful novel and I think it has a chance to become a famous one. Ive 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 Im 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 Edwardss 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 Kehes summer book roundup in the Christian Science Monitor An ideal late summer reading getaway. The Little Bookis all about plotthats what makes it both an entertaining mental escape and a tough book to do justice to in a review.The Little Book isa 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

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