Dimensions
233 x 153 x 31mm
An irresistible time-travelling romp 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. Wheeler Burden is the last heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens; he's also a philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew and Harvard baseball hero. At age 47 he loves 1988 San Francisco, and so it is with some surprise that he comes to one day in 1897 Vienna where, coincidentally, he's older than his father (who died a WW2 hero), and much older than his grandfather (who goes on to found the banking dynasty), both of whom also happen to be there. And when he meets the delectable Wheezie, and she and Wheeler fall in love, things start to get complicated - and then some - once Wheeler understands Wheezie is in fact his grandmother... Helped (or hindered) by Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Gustav Mahler and Buddy Holly, Wheeler has to unravel a lifetime of memories before he can discover who he really is or what's gone on.
