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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780812978216ISBN-10:812978218UPC:9780812978216Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, PsychologicalSize:8.00 x 5.28 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCR8MB964X
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
-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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780812978216ISBN-10:812978218UPC:9780812978216Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, PsychologicalSize:8.00 x 5.28 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCR8MB964X
E. L. Doctorow's works of fiction include Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, City of God, The March, Homer & Langley, and Andrew's Brain. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, honoring a writer's lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/ Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose "scale of achievement over a sustained career places him in the highest rank of American literature." In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. In 2014 he was honored with the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
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