There were multiple characters and descriptions that charmed me. Towles once again displays his skill and dare I say it, devotion to character development. It is featured in countless Best Books of 2021 lists, and the Amazon Book Review editors even named this their #1 book of the year. Book ReviewĪfter raving over Amor Towles debut novel Rules of Civility, I was very much looking forward to reading his highly anticipated third novel The Lincoln Highway. Genre: Literature, Historical, Drama, Adventureĭisclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. They have a very different plan for Emmett’s future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction – to New York City.īursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller.
With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.īut when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden’s car. 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. And a simple journey quickly becomes a dazzling odyssey filled with obstacles, villains and ruses fit only for heroes to overcome.īursting with life, charm and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from a master storyteller.Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. Each young man sees this journey as his chance to pursue his dreams, settle scores and find riches. Insatiable Duchess and his devoted, but slow companion Woolly soon wreck Billy's plan to get onto the open road, one well-intentioned blunder at a time. However, as soon as they've loaded Emmett's bright blue Studebaker with their few belongings, trouble arrives and brings its sidekick in the form of Duchess and Woolly, two runaways from the very facility Emmett just left behind him.
Young, precocious Billy has plans of his own - to get to San Francisco, where he believes their long-estranged mother is waiting for them. Since leaving the Kansas youth facility where he's served time, Emmett has wanted one thing: to give them both a fresh start - and that means heading out to the sparkling west. Emmett returns home to pick-up his little brother Billy, tie-up his late father's estate and get out of town for good.
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