The little book
"The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 Wheeler Burden is forty-seven, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he - still his modern self - is wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well, fin de siecle Vienna. It is 1897, pre...