He wants to start over and he's got a highway of possibilities ahead of him...
He has not yet repaid the debt to the company. He wants to start over and he's got a highway of possibilities ahead of him...
After serving his sentence in a correctional facility, juvenile Emmett Watson is taken home to Nebraska. However, his late father's farm has been seized by the bank and he and his brother Billy must clear the fields. Fortunately, there's still a grey-blue Studebaker parked in the barn, in whose engine Dad hid three grand as an incentive for his son's better future. Emmett plans to invest them in a carpentry business in Texas, but his wise-bearded Billy convinces him to search in California for his mother, who abandoned the boys at a young age. And then Woolly and the Duke, a freak, are out of the picture - Emmett's fellow fugitives have secretly arrived in the trunk of a police escort car and are supposedly going to split the inheritance stored at Woolly's wealthy family's cottage near New York. So West or East?
Amor Towles sweeps us through June 1954 in an America that continues to insist on sleek Sinatra and overlook preconceptions, though everywhere along the Lincoln Highway, rock 'n' roll, Kerouac and Rosa Parks are already evident to speak. And because the former "main class" of the USA is also lined with wavy preachers, confessional harlots and other figures, the four boys are about to go to the school of life, which will make them explore the nature of ordinary miracles between heaven and earth. And choose between maturity and fury as their nine days on the road come to a harrowing finale.
A multi-layered novel from the bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.
