num_pages: 320
description: 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 Sophocless Oedipus Rex for our own era. In Seattle in 1962 Walter Cousins a mild-mannered actuarya guy who weighs risk for a livingtakes 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 whos 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 celebritythe King of Searchwho unknowingly but inexorably hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape. An instant classicDavid Gutersons most daring and dazzling novel yetthat brings a contemporary urgency to one of the greatest stories of all time.
language: English
title: Ed King
publisher: Knopf