Ed King
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Overview
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes a modern re-imagining of one of the world's greatest tragedies, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex--a story of destiny, desire, and destruction. - "Brilliant.... Transcendently dark and dazzling." --The Seattle Times
In Seattle of 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary 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. When Diane becomes pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, it sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. The 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 way of reversing.
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- ISBN-13: 9780307455901
- ISBN-10: 0307455904
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: July 2012
- Dimensions: 8.01 x 5.17 x 0.68 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
- Page Count: 320
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