Two runaways from the youth work farm, Duchess and Wolly, have followed Emmett all the way to Nebraska with a plan of their own, one that will take the four of them on an unexpected and fateful journey in the opposite direction – to New York City. They are getting ready to leave their old life behind and head out to sunny California.īut they’re not alone. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger brother Billy after serving fifteen months in a juvenile facility for involuntary manslaughter. in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast’ ANN PATCHETT ‘Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again’ TANA FRENCH ‘Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre’ OBSERVER 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 INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERįROM THE AUTHOR OF 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. elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” – NPR 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 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. permeated with light, wit, youth.” -The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” -Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “A real joyride. The Lincoln Highway - by Amor Towles (Hardcover) 16.

“#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining. After orphaned 18-year-old Emmett Watson is released from a juvenile detention facility in the 1950s, he heads home to the foreclosed family farm in Nebraska.

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