Loon Lake: a novel
Joe is a young man on the run during 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 follows 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 gangste…
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- Full title :Loon Lake : a novel / E.L. Doctorow.
Summary
Joe is a young man on the run during 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 follows 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.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (255 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780307762986, 030776298X
- oclc:ocn743302026
- LC Classification:PS3554.O3
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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