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Praise for The Other 'Remarkable ... a highly significant contribution to American literature' (Giles Foden, author of <i>The Last King of Scotland</i> )
'Guterson's books keep getting better ... A moving portrait of male friendship' (<i>New York Times</i> )
'A fine novel [of] gentle, intelligent sadness' (<i>Independent</i> )
'Elegiac ... The Other is an exploration of how one should live in a flawed world, the choices we make and the values they reflect' (<i>Boston Globe</i> )
'Guterson's books keep getting better ... A moving portrait of male friendship' (<i>New York Times</i> )
'A fine novel [of] gentle, intelligent sadness' (<i>Independent</i> )
'Elegiac ... The Other is an exploration of how one should live in a flawed world, the choices we make and the values they reflect' (<i>Boston Globe</i> )
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A riveting reimagining of the Classical story of fate and desire: we know where it will end, but following the hows and whys will keep readers on the edges of their seats Mining the classics makes for bestsellers: as Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres took on King Lear, David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle mirrored Hamlet, and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain updated The Odyssey, Guterson's Ed King gives us an Oedipus for our times. David Guterson's backlist have sold 4.5 million copies worldwide
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A modern day myth-alliance
28. September 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Amazon Vine™ Rezension
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It seems to me that when a reader is invited into a piece of fiction well aware of what its tragic outcome will be--either from previous acquaintance with the tale or promotion of the new version--then it becomes incumbent upon the author to deliver a protagonist that will come to matter to his audience--someone the reader can connect to, feel for and find interesting enough to want to spend several hours with. Sophocles pulls that off; Guterson does not. At least not for this reader.
In a previous life as a 12-year-old, I discovered a volume of Greek mythology in my late grandmother's attic, stashed it in our garage, and whenever forced to "get my nose out of a book" and go outside and play with the other kids, I'd sneak off and go hang out with the Greeks in the garage instead. Later, in college, I was part of the crew for a production of "Antigone," which I loved.
Now here I am all these years later having just put down (in order to "put-down" in its other sense) a modern-day adaptation of "Oedipus Rex," one of the most famous Greek tragedies of them all. At the beginning, I was excited about the idea of revisiting this old love of my youth as re-imagined by a winner of the PEN/Faulkner award. But I couldn't come up with even an ounce of interest in or empathy for any character in it and quickly lost my initial curiosity about how its author might manage to massage this ancient classic into a modern day novel with best-seller potential.
After force-feeding myself the first hundred or so pages, I started skimming, eventually coming to page 236 where I found a message to his readers inserted by the author. It begins: "Okay. Now we approach the part of the story a reader couldn't be blamed for having skipped forward to--'flipped forward to' if he or she has a hard copy, but otherwise 'scrolled to' or 'used the 'find' feature to locate the part where a mother has sex with her son. Who could blame you for being interested in this potential hot part, and at the same time, for shuddering at the prospect of it?..."
Well, by then I was not in the least interested in finding the "potential hot part," and the only prospect I was shuddering at was that of having to soldier along for another 60 pages to reach the end.
In sum, "Oed" = tragedy; "Ed" = soap.
In a previous life as a 12-year-old, I discovered a volume of Greek mythology in my late grandmother's attic, stashed it in our garage, and whenever forced to "get my nose out of a book" and go outside and play with the other kids, I'd sneak off and go hang out with the Greeks in the garage instead. Later, in college, I was part of the crew for a production of "Antigone," which I loved.
Now here I am all these years later having just put down (in order to "put-down" in its other sense) a modern-day adaptation of "Oedipus Rex," one of the most famous Greek tragedies of them all. At the beginning, I was excited about the idea of revisiting this old love of my youth as re-imagined by a winner of the PEN/Faulkner award. But I couldn't come up with even an ounce of interest in or empathy for any character in it and quickly lost my initial curiosity about how its author might manage to massage this ancient classic into a modern day novel with best-seller potential.
After force-feeding myself the first hundred or so pages, I started skimming, eventually coming to page 236 where I found a message to his readers inserted by the author. It begins: "Okay. Now we approach the part of the story a reader couldn't be blamed for having skipped forward to--'flipped forward to' if he or she has a hard copy, but otherwise 'scrolled to' or 'used the 'find' feature to locate the part where a mother has sex with her son. Who could blame you for being interested in this potential hot part, and at the same time, for shuddering at the prospect of it?..."
Well, by then I was not in the least interested in finding the "potential hot part," and the only prospect I was shuddering at was that of having to soldier along for another 60 pages to reach the end.
In sum, "Oed" = tragedy; "Ed" = soap.
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So Sorry
29. September 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Amazon Vine™ Rezension
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"Ed King" by David Guterson is a book I couldn't wait to start because I loved three of his previous books. After about 100 pages, it was a book I couldn't wait to finish, and by finish, I mean be done with.
The premise is very appealing to any bookworm, a retelling of Oedipus Rex. The opening holds a lot of interesting parallels with the nondescript accountant having an affair with his family's au pair, resulting in a baby. Whether or not you know the Oedipus cycle, you read eagerly on, some for each of the mythological events to take place and others because the characters act so despicably.
The problem for me was that Guterson uses too much summary in the book, moving from person to person and decade to decade without developing scenes. There is very little direct dialog. I wondered if the narrator was the Greek chorus, commenting from afar with atonal voices.
Whatever the reason, the result was a book with long, boring passages, some of them filled with abstract mathematical theory, which just plain held nothing to lead the reader into hanging on for another chapter. Alas, the best I can offer here is two stars to this beloved author.
I would love to see him revise this book and tell it with his usual polish and style.
The premise is very appealing to any bookworm, a retelling of Oedipus Rex. The opening holds a lot of interesting parallels with the nondescript accountant having an affair with his family's au pair, resulting in a baby. Whether or not you know the Oedipus cycle, you read eagerly on, some for each of the mythological events to take place and others because the characters act so despicably.
The problem for me was that Guterson uses too much summary in the book, moving from person to person and decade to decade without developing scenes. There is very little direct dialog. I wondered if the narrator was the Greek chorus, commenting from afar with atonal voices.
Whatever the reason, the result was a book with long, boring passages, some of them filled with abstract mathematical theory, which just plain held nothing to lead the reader into hanging on for another chapter. Alas, the best I can offer here is two stars to this beloved author.
I would love to see him revise this book and tell it with his usual polish and style.
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AN INTRIGUING STORY OF CHOICES AND FATE
23. Oktober 2011
Format:Audio CD
With the winning of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Snow Falling On Cedars David Guterson was recognized as a literary giant. That recognition is underscored with Ed King, a highly imaginative, intriguing exploration of the effects of the choices we make and the directions in which fate takes us.
The scene is 1962 Seattle, long before the technology boom, when Walter Cousins, a rather mild actuary, hires Diane Burroughs a British exchange student as an au pair for his children while his wife is hospitalized for a mental breakdown. He sees Diane as plucky, eager, full of life; he does not see that she is a sociopath.
Before long she and Walter are sleeping together and she becomes pregnant. Diane flees with the baby as soon as she can. Walter spends years sending her child support little knowing that she had deposited the child on a doorstep. After the infant is found and turned over to an agency he is adopted by a reformed Jewish couple, Alice and Dan King, who choose not to tell Ed, as he is named, that he was adopted. Later, unexpectedly, the couple will have another son.
As Ed grows into his teens he takes up with an undesirable crowd, and is involved in a fatal road accident. He quickly exits the scene, feels a bit of guilt for a bit, then forgets. After graduating from high school where he enjoyed a brief affair with an older teacher, he becomes a computer whiz in college. His younger brother, Simon, becomes adept at computer gaming. At this point the listener has an inkling of where the story is going.....almost.)
During these years Diane has reinvented herself several times, taking advantage of others and being scammed herself. Ed's company grows to dwarf Amazon as well as Google, and he meets Diane at an exhibition. In 2017 as he experiments with artificial intelligence Ed begins to see things about himself that he had never imagined.
A teacher of performance and writing Arthur Morey delivers an outstanding reading of this compelling story. Enjoy!
- Gail Cooke
The scene is 1962 Seattle, long before the technology boom, when Walter Cousins, a rather mild actuary, hires Diane Burroughs a British exchange student as an au pair for his children while his wife is hospitalized for a mental breakdown. He sees Diane as plucky, eager, full of life; he does not see that she is a sociopath.
Before long she and Walter are sleeping together and she becomes pregnant. Diane flees with the baby as soon as she can. Walter spends years sending her child support little knowing that she had deposited the child on a doorstep. After the infant is found and turned over to an agency he is adopted by a reformed Jewish couple, Alice and Dan King, who choose not to tell Ed, as he is named, that he was adopted. Later, unexpectedly, the couple will have another son.
As Ed grows into his teens he takes up with an undesirable crowd, and is involved in a fatal road accident. He quickly exits the scene, feels a bit of guilt for a bit, then forgets. After graduating from high school where he enjoyed a brief affair with an older teacher, he becomes a computer whiz in college. His younger brother, Simon, becomes adept at computer gaming. At this point the listener has an inkling of where the story is going.....almost.)
During these years Diane has reinvented herself several times, taking advantage of others and being scammed herself. Ed's company grows to dwarf Amazon as well as Google, and he meets Diane at an exhibition. In 2017 as he experiments with artificial intelligence Ed begins to see things about himself that he had never imagined.
A teacher of performance and writing Arthur Morey delivers an outstanding reading of this compelling story. Enjoy!
- Gail Cooke
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