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. 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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