Word: loon
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...LOON LAKE shimmers in the dewy dawn, prose and poetry, beautiful words strung like a creeping vine in a jungle of Adirondack fir. But E. L. Doctorow's images evaporate in the sunlight. He tightly wraps the vine around his totem of America then chops at this wooden monument like a pecking bird. He hunts for seedy answers to those pregnant questions only poets ask. He wants to know who we are, where we have come from, what we look like to ourselves. He whirls in a magical helix around America's spine and in the end he finds that...
...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...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by halo Calvino ∙ Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble The Second Coming, Walker Percy
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote ∙Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble The Second Coming, Walker Percy