![]() ![]() ![]() The two novels have collectively sold more than 4 million. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. The author of A Gentleman in Moscow pays glorious tribute to the landscape of 1950s America in this hugely entertaining road-trip undergone by a quartet of. Amor Towles is the author of New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow. ![]() Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. ![]() In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. Combining familiar elements of the picaresque, a road trip, a getaway car and the heros journey, Amor Towles absorbing new novel, The Lincoln Highway, is a. The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America ![]()
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