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Ed King - 9780307271068
Un libro in lingua di David Guterson edito da Random House Inc, 2011
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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 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Ed King
- Lingua: English
- Autore: David Guterson
- Editore: Random House Inc
- Collana: Random House Inc (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 18 Ottobre '11
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : Orphans Fiction Free will and determinism Fiction Fate and fatalism Fiction
- Pagine: 301
- ISBN-10: 0307271064
- EAN-13: 9780307271068