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      The Lake

      by Daniel Villasenor
      Published
      Jul 2000
      Main Genre
      Action Adventure Action & Adventure
      Pages
      320
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      Breathtaking in its sensuous originality and metaphoric power, The Lake is the story of Zach Brannagan, a graduate student of philosophy in the midst of a nervous breakdown. He finds himself in the care of Michael Lazar, a psychiatrist who coaxes Zach to health with contraband delicacies from his wife's kitchen and a homespun, probing intelligence. Lazar propels Zach on a cross-country journey to unravel the mysteries of his bloodlines that instead lead him to The Lake, an orphanage in the dark heart of the Louisiana wilderness, and to its proprietor Anna Beauchamp and her most precious charge, the mysterious and mute boy, Samuel. Haunting and sublime, The Lake examines the relationship between absurdity and sanity, poetry and philosophy in rich, muscular, and masterful prose.

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      Action Adventure

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      Jun 2001 Penguin ISBN13 9780141001852 ISBN10 0141001852
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      First Edition Jul 2000 Viking ISBN13 9780670891610 ISBN10 0670891614
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      Jun 2001 Penguin ISBN13 9780786523863 ISBN10 0786523867
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      Jun 2001 Penguin ISBN13 9781101191613 ISBN10 1101191619
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      Jun 2001 Penguin ISBN10 B004IE9QZ4
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