A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone
A priest, a nun, an anthropologist with CIA connections, a soldier of fortune and the contraband runners he joins are all drawn into events in a Central American country on the brink of revolution.
Read Time: ~4.3 hr
Loon Lake
by E. L. Doctorow (1980)
About this book
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.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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