- Fiction, Male friendship, Fathers and sons, Young men
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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Ethan Canin
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 341
- Publisher
- Salamandra, 10/18, Picador USA
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9782264031808
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“Years later, Orno Tarcher would think of his days in New York as a seduction.”
Ethan Andrew Canin is an American writer, educator, and physician, author of novels *(Blue River, For Kings and Planets, Carry Me Across the Water, America America, A Doubter's Almanac)* and short stories *(Emperor of the Air, The Palace Thief).*
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