E.l. Doctorow

Loon Lake: a Novel E.l. Doctorow Reprint edition

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