num_pages: 320
description: Cut off from the real world by years of grappling with intellectual abstractions, Zachary Brannagan, a young philosopher, sets out to reconnect with life at a lake, where he encounters a woman who draws him from a life of the intellect into a world of concrete physical experience. A first novel. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Lake
titlecomplete: The Lake
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 39
publisher: Penguin Books