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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	August 2012
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
	American Frontier / Annie Proulx / Brokeback Mountain / Circe Song of Achilles / ed king / Fiction / love loss longing / Masculinity / Modern and contemporary fiction# general and literary / myth legend / Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction / Narrative theme# Love and relationships / Oedipus Rex / our lady of the forest / pen faulkner award winning / prize nominated / problems with people / regrets aging old / retelling modern version / Sophocles / the country ahead of us behind / the other mehr...
ISBN:	9781408821992
EAN-Code:	9781408821992
Verlag:	Bloomsbury
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 198 mm / B 129 mm / D 21 mm
Gewicht:	219 gr
Seiten:	320
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Inhalt:

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. 'Superbly organised and sophisticated ... Excellently entertaining' Sunday Times 'A great story and a riveting read' Daily Mail 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.