Ed King, David Guterson, Random House.
This is not Snow Falling on Cedars. It is funny though, and also about the impossibility of escaping destiny. Ed (as in Oedipus) is a star-crossed computer mogul who can’t escape chaos. Marx says all great world-historic facts and personages appear twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Guterson pulls the rug out from Tragedy, sits Freudian Psychiatry on a whoopee cushion.You’ll laugh, but maybe in desperation? Taking the lid off of passion and destiny without putting it back in place is a terrorist act.
