The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

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Bookseller Review by Fleur:

The Lincoln Highway is such an enjoyable read – I absolutely loved it! An epic American journey filled with honest, great and terrible men; with stories inside stories as brothers Emmett and Billy meet, and are monumentally diverted by, other larger-than-life characters busy pursuing their own grand destinies along their way. Adventure, friendship, catastrophes, and something I’m coming to Love in Amor Towles’ novels, an abundance of feasts and delectable treats! Best read with a drink and delicious snack to hand (I’m sure Amor could recommend just the thing!), and an open and steady heart – there are moments of great, GREAT frustration as obstacles amass beyond control in the brothers’ path. It’s the sort of novel you have no choice but to give yourself over to, put whatever else you had planned on hold until you reach the end of the book.’

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Description

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.

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.

But 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. 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.

Bursting 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.
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW

‘An absolute beauty of a book. Every character is a gem, the many locations spring to vivid life, the book is an intricate and moving exploration of journeys and the infinite unexpected turns they can take – and somehow Towles makes it all seem effortless. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again’ TANA FRENCH

‘The best novel I’ve read in years. Epic and original, mesmeric and life-affirming, in THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY Amor Towles takes his unmatched gift for storytelling and puts it on the road. Every beautiful paragraph takes the reader a mile further into a world where our choices matter, where life surprises us, and where people are worth the trouble. This is one of those rare and special books that drive us home to ourselves’ CHRIS CLEAVE

‘With exquisitely drawn characters, beautiful writing and a real sense of moral integrity, The Lincoln Highway already feels like an American coming of age classic to sit alongside The Catcher In The Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird’ Red

‘[A] wise and wildly entertaining novel . . . Towles has snipped off a minuscule strand of existence – 10 wayward days – and when we look through his lens we see that this brief interstice teems with stories, grand as legends’ New York Times