Loon LakeBy: E. L. Doctorow 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. Brightly lit windows reveal well dressed men at a table and, in another compartment, a beautiful girl holding up a white dress before her naked form. Joe will follow