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.”
— Dallas Morning News
“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.
Arthur Morey has won three AudioFile Magazine “Best Of” Awards, and his work has garnered numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and placed him as a finalist for two Audie Awards. He has acted in a number of productions, both off Broadway in New York and off Loop in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He has won awards for his fiction and drama, worked as an editor with several book publishers, and taught literature and writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.