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For Kings and Planets

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For Kings and Planets

From the celebrated author of The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air comes this stunning novel about the relationship between two very different men and a woman they love. Orno Tarcher travels from a small town in Missouri to New York City, where he strikes up a friendship with Marshall Emerson, a charismatic and brilliant New Yorker who lives in a world Orno never would have imagined. And in that seductive world, as he gradually comes to know it, Orno finds both desperation and glamour, destruction and love.

For Kings and Planets
by Ethan Canin

  • Publication Date: October 1, 1999
  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Picador
  • ISBN-10: 0312241259
  • ISBN-13: 9780312241254