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Loon Lake

E. L. Doctorow

1980250 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1980
first published
  • 1980Macmillan · 258 pages · ENGISBN 9780333306413
  • 1980Random House · 258 pages · ENGISBN 9780394506913
  • 1981Bantam Books · 295 pages · ENGISBN 9780553200270
  • 1982Pan in association with Macmillan · 251 pages · ENGISBN 9780330264266
  • 1985Pan Books · ENGISBN 9780330288507
  • 1989Macmillan · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780333520031
  • 1992Vintage Books · ENGISBN 9780679736257
  • 1996Plume · 258 pages · ENGISBN 9780452275683

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical place called Loon Lake.

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Character focusSingle lead

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ThemesLove

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