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For kings and planets

Attending Columbia University, a young man with traditional Midwestern values comes under the influence of a jaded, wealthy Easterner. The novel traces their friendship from admiration to disillusion, though he does marry the Easterner's sister.

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  • "Dans les années 70, deux jeunes étudiants que tout semble opposer, Orner Tarcher, timide provincial du Missouri et Marshall Emerson, New-yorkais brillant, se lient d'amitié à Columbia University. Mais cette longue amitié saura-t-elle résister à l'épreuve du temps et des choix que chacun d'eux fera en construisant sa vie d'homme?"
  • "Attending Columbia University, a young man with traditional Midwestern values comes under the influence of a jaded, wealthy Easterner. The novel traces their friendship from admiration to disillusion, though he does marry the Easterner's sister."@en
  • "Ethan Canin is one of America's finest writers. He has been called "brilliant" by the Los Angeles Times, "a tremendous talent" by the Chicago Sun-Times, and "dazzling" by Walker Percy. The bestselling author of The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air now gives us this stunning new novel, For Kings and Planets. "Years later, Orno Tarcher would think of his days in New York as a seduction. A seduction and a near miss, a time when his memory of the world around him --the shining stone stairwells, the taxicabs, the sea of nighttime lights--was glinting and of heroic proportion. Like a dream." So begins this remarkable novel about the lives of two young men and the women they love. Orno Tarcher arrives in New York City from a small town in Missouri, feeling unsophisticated and disadvantaged by his family's bedrock values. He meets Marshall Emerson, the charismatic gem of a worldly family, a seductive and brilliant New Yorker who is revealed, as time passes, to be bent on destruction. The novel explores with depth and sophistication the conflicts of character at the heart of every life, the desire for grandeur and the lure of normalcy, the tension between rivalry and friendship, fathers and sons, love and betrayal. For Kings and Planets is the story of a man who thinks of himself as moral, who tests his character against power, deception, and seduction. It is also the story of a friendship fractured by love. For Kings and Planets is a remarkable achievement, another fiction classic by the writer who has been called "a worthy successor to ... Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Penn Warren.""@en
  • "As he explores the lives of two very different men over the course of many years, who first meet at Columbia University, the author of "Emperor of the Air" creates the conflicts of character that mark the heart of every life."

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  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en

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  • "Baray-i shahriyārān va"
  • "For kings and planets"@en
  • "For kings and planets"
  • "For kings and planets : a novel"@en
  • "For kings and planets : a novel"
  • "De reyes y planetas"@es
  • "De reyes y planetas"
  • "Konger og planeter : roman"@da
  • "For kings and planets a novel"@en
  • "Vue sur l'Hudson"
  • "Ani králové ani hvězdy"
  • "L'amico di New York"
  • "L'amico di New York"@it
  • "Vue sur l'Hudson : roman"

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