| For Kings and Planets Contributor(s): Canin, Ethan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812979419 ISBN-13: 9780812979411 Publisher: Random House Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.58" W x 7.96" (0.55 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |