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an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover

a naive girl from the Kenyan city of Nairobi

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For Kings and Planets: A Novel Book cover type:Paperback an architect in his lateFrom the celebrated author of The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air, comes this stunning novel about the relationship between two very different men. Orno Tarcher travels from a small town in Missouri to New York City to attend Columbia University, where he begins a new life feeling unsophisticated and insecure. He soon strikes up a friendship with Marshall Emerson, a seductive and brilliant New Yorker whose sophistication dazzles Orno. As time