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secondhand Lincoln Highway new Greek novel

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Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles

Lincoln Highway - 717 pages

In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska in a prison car after serving a fifteen-month sentence for involuntary manslaughter. He has long lost his mother, his father has recently died, and the family farm has been repossessed by the bank. Emmett plans to take his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California to start their lives anew. However, as the car departs, Emmett discovers that two fellow inmates from the juvenile work farm - the determined, charismatic Dutch and the simple, lost-in-his-world Woolly - have hidden in the trunk. The two have concocted a completely different plan for Emmett's future - a plan that will lead all four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction: to New York City. With a plot that unfolds over ten days, Towles' third novel is a multi-layered adventure of self-discovery, filled with eclectic characters, from drifters living day to day along the train tracks to flamboyant vaudeville artists and Upper East Side aristocrats. An exhilarating, delightful journey; a novel that is vibrant, torrential, and moving.