Full name: For Kings and Planets: A Novel

Author: Ethan Canin Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312241254 9780812979411 0312241259 0812979419

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. Orno Tarcher travels from a small town in Missouri to New York City to attend Columbia University, where he begins a new life feeling unsophisticated and insecure. He soon strikes up a friendship with Marshall Emerson, a seductive and brilliant New Yorker whose sophistication dazzles Orno. As time passes, Marshall is revealed to be bent on destruction, and Orno's involvment with Marshall's worldly sister further complicates their friendship. Carefully crafted and skillfully informed by the works of Fitzgerald and Waugh, For Kings and Planets is a remarkable novel. A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis StarTribune bestseller, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. Similar books: The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman The Word by Irving Wallace A Favorite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford A Fairy Tale of New York by J. P. Donleavy Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill Hell by Kathryn Davis The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield Agape Agape by William Gaddis Diary of an Emotional Idiot by Maggie Estep My Drowning by Jim Grimsley Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens Final Argument by Clifford Irving Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson