Loon Lake

Loon Lake is extremely complex, full of unexpected turns and hard to penetrate. The nonlinear evolutions of the plot don’t help either but in the long run it’s one of the best novels by E. L. Doctorow and it surely is my most favourite. The man resisted all approaches he was stone he was steel I hate......more

Doctorow is one of my all time favourite authors. Other than City of God I have throughly enjoyed everything he has written. This was no exception, and for me at least, stands out as one of his very best. Set in 1936, it follows the crossed paths of a young vagabond and an older, and apparently fail......more

A Vöcsök-tó ura Mr. Bennett, a dúsgazdag mágnás. Nem tipikus mágnás, de képzeljük el őt ezúttal tipikus mágnásként: frakk, cilinder, vaskos szivar a szájban, ami takarni hivatott a megvető mosolyt azokkal szemben, akik nem pont olyan dúsgazdag mágnások, mint ő. Ameddig a szem ellát, minden az övé: a......more

I read this book only a little more than two weeks ago, but when I recall its various, disparate episodes and characters and how they may be made to cohere, I find myself going back to the book’s final image. Meanwhile, the real conclusion to this novel-cum-dossier about characters in the orbit of L......more

I would say Loon Lake is the best E.L. Doctorow novel I have read thus far (I even hazard to say Loon Lake is the superior of Ragtime). Others have called it confusing, difficult, compromised by bad poetry, etc., but I found the out-of-chronological order and first-person-narrative jumping exciting.......more