โ Scribed by David Guterson
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In 1962, when Walter Cousins sleeps with his British au pair, Diane Burroughs, he can have no sense of the magnitude of his error: this brief affair sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions, upending Sophocles's immortal tale of fate, free will, and forbidden desire. At the centre is Ed King, an infant given up for adoption who becomes one of the world's most powerful men. But beneath the gripping story of Ed's seemingly inexorable rise to fame and fortune is a dark and unsettling destiny, one that approaches with ever-increasing suspense as the novel reaches its shattering conclusion.
A great story and a riveting read (Daily Mail )
Superbly organised and sophisticated ... Excellently entertaining (Sunday Times )
[A] compelling moral fable ... beautiful writing (The Times )
Guterson is a gifted writer (Guardian )
From the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling, darkly funny, compulsively readable retelling of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex that takes us from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair to the twenty-first century headquarters of an Internet search giant.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781408821992
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