Lake Moon

A novel of both self-realization and self-destruction, John Williams's Lake Moon is the story of a band and its young members in their quest for recognition and fulfillment. Set primarily in the moral and social turmoil of the 1960s and '70s in Georgia, the novel depicts the characters' struggle against self-doubt, naivete, and addiction in their pursuit of the inescapable calling of music. This is also the story of the relationship between music and musician, between youth and belonging, between commerce and art, between self-loathing and self-awareness.

John M. Williams is an associate professor of English at LaGrange College in Georgia.