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.
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Hardback Editions
October 1998 : UK Hardback
 | Title: For Kings and Planets Author(s): Ethan Canin ISBN: 0-7475-3625-2 / 978-0-7475-3625-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA |
August 1998 : USA Hardback
 | Title: For Kings and Planets: A Novel Author(s): Ethan Canin ISBN: 0-679-41963-2 / 978-0-679-41963-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Paperback Editions
March 2010 : USA Paperback
 | Title: For Kings and Planets: A Novel Author(s): Ethan Canin ISBN: 0-8129-7941-9 / 978-0-8129-7941-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
October 1999 : USA Paperback
 | Title: For Kings and Planets: A Novel Author(s): Ethan Canin ISBN: 0-312-24125-9 / 978-0-312-24125-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
October 1999 : USA Paperback
| Title: For Kings and Planets Author(s): Ethan Canin ISBN: 0-312-24717-6 / 978-0-312-24717-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador USA Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA |
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
 | Title: For Kings and Planets (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) Author(s): Ethan Canin ISBN: 0-7475-4400-X / 978-0-7475-4400-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
January 1968 : USA Paperback
 | Title: For Kings and Planets Author(s): Ethan Canin ISBN: 0-9656457-7-0 / 978-0-9656457-7-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
Audio Editions
June 1999 : USA Audio Cassette
 | Title: For Kings and Planets Author(s): Ethan Canin ISBN: 0-7927-2293-0 / 978-0-7927-2293-9 (USA edition) Publisher: John Curley & Assoc Availability: Amazon CA |
Kindle Editions
March 2013 : USA, Canada Kindle edition
 | Title: For Kings and Planets: A Novel Author(s): Ethan Canin Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon Amazon CA |
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