David Guterson Plays Oedipus for Laughs

style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">In David Guterson’s new novel Ed King, an oddly light-hearted updating of the Oedipus myth, there’s seldom much danger of the reader forgetting the classical territory. About two-thirds of the way through, our hero is talking to his elderly father’s eastern European carer, Zinaida.