Loon Lake
  • Published:
    Dec-1981
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    295
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The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes. Brightly lit windows reveal well-dressed men at a table and, in another compartment, a beautiful girl holding up a white dress before her naked form. Joe will follow the track to the mysterious estate at Loon Lake, where he finds the girl along with a tycoon, an aviatrix, a drunken poet, and a covey of gangsters. Here Joe's fate will play out in this powerful story of ambition, aggression, and identity. Loon Lake is another stunning achievement of this acclaimed author.

“Powerful . . . [a] complex and haunting meditation on modern American history.”
"The New York Times

“A genuine thriller . . . a marvelous exploration of the complexities and contradictions of the American dream . . . Not under any circumstances would we reveal the truly shattering climax.”
"The Dallas Morning News

“A dazzling performance . . . [Loon Lake] anatomizes America with insight, passion, and inventiveness.”
"The Washington Post Book World

“Hypnotic . . . tantalizes long after it has ended.”
"Time

“Compelling . . . brilliantly done.”
"St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A masterpiece.”
"Chicago Sun-Times
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    • Sep-1980
    • Random House
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 039451176X
    • ISBN13: 9780394511764
    •  
    • Dec-1981
    • Bantam
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0553200275
    • ISBN13: 9780553200270
    •  
    • Jul-1988
    • Fawcett
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0449216039
    • ISBN13: 9780449216033
    •  
    • Jul-1992
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679736255
    • ISBN13: 9780679736257
    •  
    • Dec-2005
    • Plume
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452275687
    • ISBN13: 9780452275683
    •  
    • Sep-2007
    • Random House
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0812978218
    • ISBN13: 9780812978216
    •  
    • Aug-1980
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 039450691X
    • ISBN13: 9780394506913
    •  
    • Sep-2010
    • Random House Trade Paperbacks
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Sep-2010
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 030776298X
    • ISBN13: 9780307762986



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