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. A few black-and-white snapshots capture their honeymoon, edges scalloped, their faces bright and impossibly young. 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. Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway, a big book of camaraderie and adventure in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast. Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writingespecially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. So it was a no-brainer to pick up his next novel, The Lincoln Highway, when it came out last October. Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. In 2019, I reviewed his book A Gentleman in Moscow, which was fantastic.
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