Word: loon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: A Philip Roth Reader, Philip Roth ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits, Stanley Elkin ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty
...Great Depression, sleeping on box cars, eating from cans, living like a tent peg in a one-ring circus. And then one night the star of Bethlehem Steel leads him to the private game reserve of one queer millionaire, autobody magnate F. W. Bennett, drawing-room Zeus, master of Loon Lake...
...Loon Lake changes Joe, scrubs him clean, wraps him in respectability as tight as the leather grip on a golf club. Glistening nature blinds him each morning and seduces him each night. The Lake is a world of dreams, of gnawing beavers, whizzing speedboats, amniotic whirlpools, fancy flights and flights of fantasy. Like Orpheus to his river, Joe eventually succumbs to The Lake. He succumbs to wealth, to fame, success and glory. He suffers only the wrenching pain of a boot strap as it pulls itself over a heel...
...instance, that Loon Lake...
...LOON LAKE is political in an uncomfortable way. It is sexual in a strangely mechanical way. Its rhythm is charted, its course vaguely predictable, its ending a hollow punctuation to the entire novel. But its vision of America's past glows with more beauty than a lavender sunset over Loon Lake...