David Guterson
A sweeping, propulsive, darkly humorous new novel by the best-selling author of ,Snow Falling on Cedars: ,a story of destiny, desire, and destruction that reimagines Sophoclesâ€™s ,Oedipus Rex, for our own era., Â , In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuaryâ€”â€œa guy who weighs risk for a livingâ€â€”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 whoâ€™s taking care of his children for the summer. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, but not before turning the tables on Walter and setting in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted by an adoring family and named Edward Aaron King, grows up to become a billionaire Internet tycoon and an international celebrityâ€”the â€œKing of Searchâ€â€”who unknowingly, but inexorably, hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape., Â , An instant classicâ€”David Gutersonâ€™s most daring and dazzling novel yetâ€”that brings a contemporary urgency to one of the greatest stories of all time.
Fiction,Literary Fiction,Literature,American,Parenting,Adoption,Contemporary,Novels,Family,Literature,Audiobook,Modern
Ed King