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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...

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Main Author: Guterson, David.
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2011.
Series: Vintage Contemporaries.
Subjects:
Millionaires > Fiction.
Tragedies.
Electronic books.
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Summary: 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. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
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ISBN: 9780307700421
Author Notes: David Guterson was born in Seattle and later graduated from the University of Washington. Before becoming a full-time writer, Guterson was a high school English teacher and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine.

Guterson has published The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind, a collection of short stories, and Family Matters: Why Home Schooling Makes Sense, a nonfiction book. Snow Falling on Cedars is Guterson's most famous work; it has won the Pen/Faulkner Award and was an American Booksellers Book of the Year Nominee.

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