5/15/2023 0 Comments The lincoln highway amor towles![]() From the cherished book, he knows the tropes of the travel tale, the requirements of heroes. He wears a watch with a second hand and carries in his Army surplus backpack a flashlight, a compass and a folded road map, along with his mother’s postcards and a well-thumbed compendium of adventure stories featuring 26 heroes, from Achilles to Zorro. Young Billy, eager to traverse his mother’s path, proves to be a worthy sidekick for this all-American journey. ![]() ![]() It’s a sentimental as well as practical choice, home to his mother, who left the family years earlier, sending back postcards from locales along the Lincoln Highway during her journey west. After a morning spent in the library with the Encyclopaedia Britannica - it’s 1954 - he decides that California is the more promising place. His decision to start fresh leads to a second choice - Texas or California? Trained as a carpenter, Emmett seeks a destination with a rapidly growing population where he can make a living flipping houses. Facing foreclosure on the family farm and violent retribution from the family of the bully he accidentally killed at the fairgrounds, Emmett has an immediate and stark choice - should he stay or should he go? Upon the death of his father from cancer, 18-year-old Emmett Watson is released early from a juvenile work farm in Kansas and driven home by a kind warden to a small town in Nebraska, where he is reunited with his precocious 8-year-old brother, Billy. Amor Towles’s third novel begins with a deceptively straightforward premise. ![]()
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