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.
"El héroe de esta brillante novela de E.L. Doctorow, el maestro de las letras americanas, es Joe, un joven que escapa de la Gran Depresión. Huye de su hogar en Patterson, New Jersey a la ciudad de Nueva York y aprende la cruda realidad de la vida antes de seguir su ruta con unos feriantes. En una noche de verano está solo y temblando de frío, intentando dormir al lado de unas vías de ferrocarril en las montañas de Adirondack, cuando por su lado pasa un vagón privado. Su interior está iluminado y a través de las ventanas puede ver a varios hombres bien vestidos sentados a una mesa y, en otro com."
"El heroe de esta brillante novela del maestro de las letras americanas, E.L. Doctorow, es Joe, un joven que escapa de la Gran Depresion. Huye de su hogar en Patterson, New Jersey, a la ciudad de Nueva York, y aprende la cruda realidad de la vida antes de seguir su ruta con unos feriantes. En una noche de verano esta solo y temblando de frio, intentando dormir al lado de unas vias de ferrocarril en las montanas de Adirondack, cuando por su lado pasa un vagon privado. Su interior esta iluminado y a traves de las ventanas puede ver a varios hombres bien vestidos sentados a una mesa y, en otro compartimento, a una hermosa mujer desnuda que sostiene un vestido blanco delante de ella mientras se observa en un espejo. A partir de esa noche, Joe seguira las vias hasta la misteriosa propiedad de Loon Lake, donde encontrara a la chica ademas de a sus acompanantes: un empresario de exito, un aviador, un poeta borracho, y un grupito de gangsters. Asi se presenta el escenario para una cautivadora historia de misterio y amenaza, avaricia y ambicion, lujuria desatada y tierno amor, que desnuda las profundidades mas oscuras del corazon humano y el lado pesadillesco del sueno americano. E.L. Doctorow ha escrito una novela que brilla con pasion y poesia, iluminada por la antorcha de la humanidad y la historia, el horror y la verdad. / 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."
"Bij een meer in de Verenigde Staten ontmoeten vier geheel verschillende mensen elkaar wat leidt tot een dramatische climax en een nieuw begin."
"Par l'auteur de ##Ragtime##, un roman qui décrit l'Amérique des années 1930, celle de la grande Crise, du rêve devenu cauchemar, et ses millions de chômeurs, de déracinés, et sa poignée de milliardaires. Avec un talent affirmé, Doctorow met en présence ces deux types de personnages, aussi bien ancrés dans la réalité que dans la mythologie des Etats-Unis. Son héros émerge toujours des "miasmes d'une société pourrie"."
"Joe is a young man on the run during 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 follows the track to the mysterious estate at Loon Lake, where he finds the girl along with a tycoon, an aviatrix, a drunken poet, and a covey of gangsters."
"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."
"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."@en
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