Ed King

Ed KingBy: David Guterson Series: Vintage Contemporaries From the award winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes a modern re imagining of one of the worlds greatest tragedies, Sophocles Oedipus Rexa story of destiny, desire, and destruction. Brilliant. Transcendently dark and dazzling. The Seattle Times In Seattle of 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild mannered actuary takes a risk of his own and makes the biggest error of his life: He sleeps

By: David Guterson   | Series: Vintage Contemporaries 

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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes a modern re-imagining of one of the world’s greatest tragedies, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex—a story of destiny, desire, and destruction. • “Brilliant.... Transcendently dark and dazzling.” —The Seattle Times

In Seattle of 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary takes a risk of his own and makes the biggest error of his life: He sleeps with Diane Burroughs, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au pair who’s taking care of his children for the summer. When Diane becomes pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, it sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. The orphaned child, adopted by an adoring family and named Edward Aaron King, grows up to become a billionaire Internet tycoon and an international celebrity—the “King of Search”—who unknowingly, but inexorably, hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no way of reversing.