![]() Now, this is where, as a reader, I fall off. Their aim, following a series of postcards, is to trace their mother to Los Angeles where they are sure she will be watching the fourth of July fireworks. Just to the north is the iconic Lincoln Highway, the first road to run right the way across America. The boys live in the middle of the USA, in Nebraska, where their dad failed to make a go on the farm. With his father recently deceased and the farm sold he collects his eight-year-old brother Billy, a stack of inheritance cash and his car-a powder blue, four door hardtop 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser-and they head out to find their mother. The story starts with Emmett, just released from juvenile for involuntary manslaughter but, we can tell immediately, a good guy. ![]() ![]() It is in the style of a classic 1950s American roadie and features a group of footloose young men and a couple of cars. Where the Moscow gentleman was confined to one hotel for almost the entire book, this 580 page monster of a story roams halfway across America. That’s a hard act to follow and this new novel is bigger and more ambitious with a wide cast of characters, multiple viewpoints and a storyline that deliberately goes in the wrong direction. ![]() The Lincoln Highway follows Amor Towles’ masterpiece that is A Gentleman in Moscow, which I highly recommend. ![]()
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