THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
By Amor Towles

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. 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.

But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that
two friends from the work farm—the wily, charismatic
Duchess and earnest, offbeat Woolly—have stowed away
in the trunk of the warden’s car. Together, they have
hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future,
one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction to the city of New York.

Spanning ten days and told from multiple points of view,
 Towles’s third novel is a multilayered tale of misadventure
and self-discovery, populated by an eclectic cast of characters,
from drifters who make their home riding the rails and
larger-than-life vaudevillians to the aristocrats of the
Upper East Side. An absorbing, exhilarating ride,
The Lincoln Highway is a novel as vivid, sweeping,
and moving as readers have come to expect from Towles’s work.

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About the Author:
Amor Towles
Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated
from Yale College and received an MA in English
from Stanford University. Having worked as an
investment professional in Manhattan for over twenty years,
he now devotes himself fulltime to writing. His first novel,
Rules of Civility, published in 2011, was a New York Times
bestseller in both hardcover and paperback and was
ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best
books of 2011. The book was optioned by Lionsgate to
be made into a feature film and its French translation received
the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. His second novel,
A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016,
was also a New York Times bestseller and was ranked as
one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune,
the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer,
the St. Louis Dispatch, and NPR. Both novels have been
translated into over fifteen languages.

Mr. Towles, who lives in Manhattan with his wife and
two children, is an ardent fan of early 20th century painting,
1950’s jazz, 1970’s cop shows, rock & roll on vinyl,
obsolete accessories, manifestoes, breakfast pastries, pasta,
liquor, snow-days, Tuscany, Provence, Disneyland,
Hollywood, the cast of Casablanca, 007, Captain Kirk,
Bob Dylan (early, mid, and late phases), the wee hours,
card games, cafés, and the cookies made by both
of his grandmothers.

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About Book:

Kindle Edition
Published October 5th 2021
Original Title
The Lincoln Highway
ISBN
0735222355 (ISBN13: 9780735222359)
Setting
Nebraska, 1954 (United States)