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Loon Lake

Loon Lake

E. L. Doctorow · 1980 · 258 pages

FictionDepressionsYoung menMan-woman relationshipsAdirondack Mountains (N.Y.)American fiction (fictional works by one author)

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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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