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THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY - AMOR TOWLES KARTONIERT (TB)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick Wise and wildly
entertaining . . . permeated with light  wit  youth. -The New York Times Book Review A classic
that we will read for years to come. -Jenna Bush Hager  Read with Jenna book club A real
joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable. - NPR The bestselling author of
A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing  sophisticated fiction
returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America 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 have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together  they have
hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future  one that will take them all on a
fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and
told from multiple points of view  Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered
literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings  characters
and themes.

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