for kings and planets造句

• "For Kings and Planets " leaves you wounded and healed.
• FOR KINGS AND PLANETS Ethan Canin ( Random House, $ 24.95)
• The characters in " For Kings and Planets " seem freshly original.
• Q : Are you looking forward to doing publicity appearances for " For Kings and Planets ?"
• Now Canin has a new novel, " For Kings and Planets " ( Random House, $ 24 ).
• The story told in Ethan Canin's shimmering new novel, " For Kings and Planets, " is deceptively familiar.
• BOOKS-CANIN _ Review of Ethan Canin's " For Kings and Planets . " ( Kellman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ).
• "The Wisdom of the Body " ), and even the novelist Ethan Canin ( " For Kings and Planets " ).
• Certainly the novel " For Kings and Planets " has hints of it, particularly in the ocean-liner momentum of its protagonist, an endearingly stalwart fellow named Orno Tarcher.
• Right now, a huge promotional poster in many Barnes & Nobles features not Grisham or Steel, but author Ethan Canin and his new literary novel " For Kings and Planets ."
• While " For Kings and Planets " is an easily gratifying story, full of shadowy omens and potentially happy endings, I do hope Canin has got the Cain-and-Abel thing out of his system.
• The result is uneven : Some moments I loved " For Kings and Planets "; at other times, I wanted to send Canin back to class at the Iowa Writers'Workshop, where he's now a teacher.
• Ethan Canin managed an excellent friendship between a dentist and a self-destructive blackguard in " For Kings and Planets, " while Dorothy Allison followed a rock'n'roll star home to Georgia in " Cavedweller ."
• His last book, " For Kings and Planets " left me a little cold; the samplings of Fitzgerald seemed wrongheaded for a primary creative talent like Canin, who doesn't need anybody else's ideas but his own.
• A couple that I'm really looking forward to are Michael Chabon's ` Werewolves in Their Youth'and Ethan Canin's ` For Kings and Planets .'He's another really good writer we haven't heard from in a while ."
• There are a few errors in " For Kings and Planets " that a writer of Canin's gifts shouldn't make : occasional tin-ear dialogue, overuse of italics, internal inconsistences ( the gender of a cat keeps changing, for instance ).
• Oddly, though, as familiar as this dark fraternal theme is, the tempest between Orno and Marshall isn't the real problem with " For Kings and Planets "; it's a compelling formula, the way " ER " or childhood fables are engagingly predictable.
• Hints of Marshall's family pathology appear early on in " For Kings and Planets " : the unhappy contract of his intellectual parents, both academics; the murderous footrace between father and son for most-miserable status; the absent mother in Marshall's first few years; the casual lying that hovers over his every enchanting tale.
• Many of his fictions, from " Blue River " ( 1991 ) through " For Kings and Planets " ( 1998 ), pit a dutiful, conscientious character against an unstable, brilliant one; others feature a hero who embodies this dialectic within himself, who is torn between yuppie pragmatism and dreamy irreverence, bourgeois ambition and adolescent rebellion.