![]() ![]() ![]() But Emmett has a plan: to pick up his precocious eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head west to California on the highway of the book’s title. The family farm has been foreclosed on by the bank. His mother has long left, and his father recently died. In June 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson is driven back home to Nebraska by the kindly warden of the juvenile work camp where he has served a sentence for an understandable crime. It hitches a ride with On the Road, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Huckleberry Finn into wide open spaces. Whereas A Gentleman in Moscow burrows through the confined, subterranean, behind-the-scenes world of a luxury hotel, The Lincoln Highway is a classic American road-trip novel. The Lincoln Highway deserves comparable success, even though its genre and scope could not be more different. AMOR TOWLES is best known for his novel A Gentleman in Moscow: a huge bestseller, beloved of book groups around the world. ![]()
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