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. Permissions: FIVE HUNDRED MILES Words and Music by HEDY WEST © 1964 (Renewed) UNICHAPPELL MUSIC INC. and ATZAL MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by UNICHAPPELL MUSIC INC. All Rights Reserved Excerpts from "Exactly Like You" by Dorothy Fields, copyright© MCMXXX and copyright renewed by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., New York, NY
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“A genuine thriller…A marvelous exploration of the complexities and contradictions of the American dream…Not under any circumstances would we reveal the truly shattering climax.”
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“Powerful…[A] complex and haunting meditation on modern American history.”
— New York Times“A dazzling performance…[Loon Lake] anatomizes America with insight, passion, and inventiveness.”
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E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) was known internationally for his works of historical fiction, including Ragtime, World’s Fair, and Billy Bathgate. He was honored with the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal.
Mark Bramhall has won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has repeatedly been named by AudioFile magazine and Publishers Weekly among their “Best Voices of the Year.” He is also an award-winning actor whose acting credits include off-Broadway, regional, and many Los Angeles venues as well as television, animation, and feature films. He has taught and directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.