A collection of novellas features characters who are trying to understand why their lives have taken such surprising turns

In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family’s generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for president. Before long, Corey finds himself involved with one of the Metarey daughters as well, and he begins to leave behind the world of his upbringing. As the Bonwiller campaign gains momentum, Corey finds himself caught up in a complex web of events in which loyalty, politics, sex, and gratitude conflict with morality, love, and the truth. Ethan Canin’s stunning novel is about America as it was and is, a remarkable exploration of how vanity, greatness, and tragedy combine to change history and fate.

Product 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...read more

The author of The Palace Thief returns with a novel that follows the lives and fortunes of August Kleinman, a man who shapes his destiny in the fires of World War II and its aftermath. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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A collection of nine intricate stories introduces a variety of personae--from a young boy who can't bring himself to catch a thief to a retired couple discovering each other's love for a second time

Beginning the day after Lawrence turns up on Edward's doorstep after a 15 year interval, this book takes the reader further and further back in time to the roots of their differences.

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.

A collection of stories by such writers as Po Bronson, Melanie Rae Thon, Gary Krist, Louis B. Jones, and Judith Freeman center on domestic life and defining the meaning of 'home'

Four dramatic tales feature people whose lives are on the brink of irrevocable change and follow their coming to terms with unanticipated events. By the author of Emperor of the Air and Blue River. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: Highly acclaimed and wildly successful, Ethan Canin's first book combines exquisite precision, humor, and a rare maturity of observation, capturing those miraculous moments when life opens up and presents itself to us. Here are short stories by a writer under thirty that aren't about existential emptiness...read more