Ed King by David Guterson

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: David Guterson
• Title: Ed King
• Publisher: ‎Alfred A. Knopf; First Edition (October 18, 2011)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge – 302 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎  0307271064
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0307271068
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.35 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.53 x 1.25 x 9.54 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

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 Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for our own era.

In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary—“a guy who weighs risk for a living”—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. 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 celebrity—the “King of Search”—who unknowingly, but inexorably, hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape.

An instant classic—David Guterson’s most daring and dazzling novel yet—that brings a contemporary urgency to one of the greatest stories of all time.

About the Author:

David Guterson is the author of 12 books, including the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and of the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award.

His writing has been celebrated for its atmospheric intensity, narrative drive, and probing exploration of fundamental human themes–love, death, meaning, and morality among them. Guterson's body of work includes six novels, two story collections, two works of non-fiction, and two books of poetry.

He was born in Washington State and still lives there.