![]() 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. Each of the main characters are at a crossroads of sorts and in a way, the Lincoln Highway serves as a getaway from their current, somewhat bleak situation. 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. His first novel, Rules of Civility (2011), set among social strivers in New York City in 1936, took its inspiration from F. 'The Lincoln Highway,' by Amor Towles book review - The Washington Post Advertisement This article was published more than 1 year ago Books Fiction Nonfiction Ron Charles Becca Rothfeld. The Lincoln Highwa y is a coming-of-age tale about the transition from teenager to adulthood. 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. ![]() Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. ![]()
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