Loon Lake
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Random House Publishing Group
Published: September 11, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780812978216
Subjects: Doctorow, E. L. - Prose & Criticism; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / General; Historical - General
First sentence: They were hateful presences in me.
Description: 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.