A formally daring novel from E. L. Doctorow that blurs poetry and prose to examine wealth, myth and reinvention in twentieth-century America.

Following a young drifter drawn into the orbit of a reclusive industrial tycoon, Loon Lake moves between stark realism and fractured lyricism. Doctorow experiments with voice and structure, shifting between narrative and poetic fragments to expose the architecture of power beneath the American dream.

For readers interested in literary fiction that interrogates class, ambition and the making of national myth — and for those drawn to novels that love a jagged edge to themselves.