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The author of Emperor of the Air offers a perceptive novel about two young men from very different backgrounds--Orno Tarcher, from a small Missouri town, and worldly New Yorker Marshall Emerson--who meet at Columbia University as they pursue their own goals, lives, women, and careers. 50,000 first printing. Tour.
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Like Philip Roth and Robert Penn Warren, Ethan Canin won the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship for rising stars whose first books hit big. His luminous 1988 story collection, Emperor of the Air remains a must-read, and his second novel, For Kings and Planets, is recognizably part of the Canin constellation first established in those stories. Typically, they feature a straight guy (an accountant or some other sober type) transfixed by the spectacle of an out-of- control guy (a delinquent and/or child-prodigy brother or brother figure to the main character). This time it's Orno Tarcher, a Missouri farm boy thunderstruck by his Columbia University classmate Marshall Emerson, a theatrically bratty, sometimes suicidal Manhattan genius. "I grew up with farmers and insurance salesmen," says Orno. "I grew up with Kennedys and insurance salesmen," says Marshall. "I grew up with pigs everywhere," says Orno. "And we had that in common," Marshall replies. (In keeping with their characters, Orno becomes a sensible dentist and Marshall a cynical, coked-up Hollywood producer.)
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Canin sensitively evokes Orno's prosaic world--you'd have to read Jane Smiley's The Age of Grief for better fiction about dentistry. But Orno mostly exists to relate Marshall's appealing, appalling antics, his manic raps about his childhood amid the ruins of Istanbul, his sabotage of his own (and Orno's) love life and his oedipal strife with his brilliant but cold parents. "Our family seal is a snake twisted in knots," says Marshall's lovely sister. And, reader, Orno marries her. Page for page, Canin's stories better show off his gift for epiphany, but the novel gives him room to develop character, entangle plots, and make a stab at the heart of the family romance. -- Tim Appelo
"Shimmering . . . luminous . . . For Kings and Planets leaves you wounded and healed."--" New York Times"
"[Ethan Canin is] the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation. For Kings and Planets stands head and shoulders above the crowd."--Alan Cheuse, NPR's "All Things Considered
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"Breathtaking . . . outstanding . . . Scott Fitzgerald himself would have been honored by [Ethan Canin's] company."--"Newsday
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"Brilliant . . . richly lyrical . . . an homage to the Golden Age of American Romanticism."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Masterful . . . a classic parable of the human condition."--Publishers Weekly
"Shimmering . . . luminous . . . For Kings and Planets leaves you wounded and healed."-- New York Times "[Ethan Canin is] the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation. For Kings and Planets stands head and shoulders above the crowd."--Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered
"Breathtaking . . . outstanding . . . Scott Fitzgerald himself would have been honored by [Ethan Canin's] company."--Newsday
"Brilliant . . . richly lyrical . . . an homage to the Golden Age of American Romanticism."--San Francisco Chronicle "Masterful . . . a classic parable of the human condition."--Publishers Weekly
"[Ethan Canin is] the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation. For Kings and Planets stands head and shoulders above the crowd."--Alan Cheuse, NPR's "All Things Considered
"
"Breathtaking . . . outstanding . . . Scott Fitzgerald himself would have been honored by [Ethan Canin's] company."--"Newsday
"
"Brilliant . . . richly lyrical . . . an homage to the Golden Age of American Romanticism."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Masterful . . . a classic parable of the human condition."--Publishers Weekly
"Shimmering . . . luminous . . . For Kings and Planets leaves you wounded and healed."-- New York Times "[Ethan Canin is] the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation. For Kings and Planets stands head and shoulders above the crowd."--Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered
"Breathtaking . . . outstanding . . . Scott Fitzgerald himself would have been honored by [Ethan Canin's] company."--Newsday
"Brilliant . . . richly lyrical . . . an homage to the Golden Age of American Romanticism."--San Francisco Chronicle "Masterful . . . a classic parable of the human condition."--Publishers Weekly
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