n store now!The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

From the author of A Gentleman in Moscow, comes The Lincoln Highway. In his new work, Amor Towles follows the life of Emmet, recently released from a Kansas Youth Facility, and suddenly thrust into the world of adulthood after the death of his father. After tying up his parent’s estate, he picks up his brother Billy, and heads out West on the Lincoln Highway, in pursuit of their dreams.

Part road novel, part coming of age story, The Lincoln Highway finds Towles in top form, investigating the fallacies of the American Dream, whilst paying a loving tribute to its pursuit, and to the imaginary America which no longer exists. Intimate, heartwarming, and uplifting, The Lincoln Highway secures Towles’ position as a significant contemporary author!

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The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Hardback £20

Emmett returns home to pick-up his little brother Billy, tie-up his late father's estate and get out of town for good. Since leaving the Kansas youth facility where he's served time, Emmett has wanted one thing: to give them both a fresh start - and that means heading out to the sparkling west.

Young, precocious Billy has plans of his own - to get to San Francisco, where he believes their long-estranged mother is waiting for them. However, as soon as they've loaded Emmett's bright blue Studebaker with their few belongings, trouble arrives and brings its sidekick in the form of Duchess and Woolly, two runaways from the very facility Emmett just left behind him.

Insatiable Duchess and his devoted, but slow companion Woolly soon wreck Billy's plan to get onto the open road, one well-intentioned blunder at a time. Each young man sees this journey as his chance to pursue his dreams, settle scores and find riches. And a simple journey quickly becomes a dazzling odyssey filled with obstacles, villains and ruses fit only for heroes to overcome.

Bursting with life, charm and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from a master storyteller.

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