Loon Lake
FictionDepressionsYoung menMan-woman relationshipsAdirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
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Open LibraryAbout this book
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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FictionDepressionsYoung menMan-woman relationshipsAdirondack Mountains (N.Y.)American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Setting
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)New York (State)Adirondack Mountains Region
About the author
E. L. Doctorow
6 January 1931
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow has received the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Humanities Medal. Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6, 1931, and attended the Bronx High School of Science. After graduating with honors from Kenyon College in 1952, he did graduate work at Columbia University and served in the U.S. Army, which stationed him in Germany. In 1954, he married Helen Setzer. They have three children. Doctorow was senior editor for New American Library from 1959 to 1964 and then served as editor…
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