Ethan Canin, the acclaimed author of America America and The Palace Thief, is 'one of the best fiction writers of his generation' (The Miami Herald). For Kings and Planets follows the lives of two young men and the woman they both love. Orno Tarcher arrives in New York City from Missouri, carrying with him the weight of his family's small-town values. He meets Marshall Emerson, the charismatic scion of a worldly clan, a seductive and brilliant New Yorker who is revealed, as time passes, to be bent on destruction. This novel explores the conflicts of character at the heart of every life, the desire for grandeur and the lure of normalcy, and the tension between rivalry and friendship, fathers and sons, love and betrayal.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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Used availability for Ethan Canin's For Kings and Planets
Hardback Editions
October 1998 : UK Hardback
August 1998 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
March 2010 : USA Paperback
October 1999 : USA Paperback
September 1999 : UK Paperback
Title: For Kings and Planets
Author(s): Ethan Canin
ISBN: 0-7475-4660-6 / 978-0-7475-4660-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Availability: Amazon UK
July 1999 : UK Paperback
January 1968 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
June 1999 : USA Audio Cassette
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March 2013 : USA, Canada Kindle edition