The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway Image

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

More than ONE MILLION copies sold

A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick


A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year

“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
 
“Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates

“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. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Details e-Book The Lincoln Highway

🗸 Author(s):
🗸 Title: The Lincoln Highway
🗸 Rating : 4 from 5 stars (5553 reviews)
🗸 Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
🗸 Supported Devices: Android, iOS, MacOS, PC and Amazon Kindle

What do I get?

✓ Read as many eBooks you want!
✓ Secure Scanned. No Virus Detected
✓ Thousands of eBooks to choose from - Hottest new releases
✓ Click it and Read it! - no waiting to read eBooks, it's instant!
✓ Keep reading your favorite eBooks over and over!
✓ It works anywhere in the world!
✓ No late fees or fixed contracts - cancel anytime!

Readers' opinions about The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

The plot was incredibly well-crafted, with twists and turns that kept me hooked until the very last page. It was impossible to predict what would happen next.

I couldn't stop raving about this book to my friends and family. It's a literary gem that deserves all the praise. I can't wait to dive into more works by this talented author.

The plot twists were executed masterfully. I was left gasping at every unexpected turn, and the suspense kept me on edge throughout. Bravo to the author for keeping me guessing.

More by Amor Towles

Related eBook The Lincoln Highway

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous & Duchess Goldblatt Hunger by Roxane Gay Instead by Maria Coffey The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy The Genius of Jane Austen by Paula Byrne Me. You. Not a Diary by Dawn French Lit by Mary Karr Tibetan Peach Pie by Tom Robbins The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner Belle by Paula Byrne Zelda by Nancy Milford Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt Papillon by Henri Charrière An American Childhood by Annie Dillard I'm Your Man by Sylvie Simmons Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston Death Be Not Proud by John J. Gunther Finding Fish by Antwone Q. Fisher & Mim E. Rivas North of Normal by Cea Sunrise Person Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy by Nicholas Reynolds Shakespeare by Bill Bryson Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan Paris Without End by Gioia Diliberto The Prince of los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco Out of the Woods by Lynn Darling Logical Family by Armistead Maupin An Autobiography by Agatha Christie I Love Yous Are for White People by Lac Su Who I Am by Pete Townshend The Man Who Sold the World by Peter Doggett Tell Me a Story by Cassandra King Conroy Between Them by Richard Ford The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me by Sofka Zinovieff The Narnian by Alan Jacobs The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne Daring: My Passages by Gail Sheehy Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon The Wars of the Roosevelts by William J. Mann A Garden of Marvels by Ruth Kassinger My Invented Country by Isabel Allende The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone The Boy Detective by Roger Rosenblatt