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  1. Book Review: 'The Lincoln Highway,' by Amor Towles

    At nearly 600 pages, "The Lincoln Highway" is remarkably brisk, remarkably buoyant. Though dark shadows fall across its final chapters, the book is permeated with light, wit, youth. Many ...

  2. Review: 'The Lincoln Highway,' by Amor Towles : NPR

    The Lincoln Highway is a joyride. Amor Towles ' new Great American Road Novel tails four boys — three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus a brainy 8-year-old — as they set out ...

  3. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles review

    For his latest, Towles has looked to the open road. Hundreds of miles roll by over the course of The Lincoln Highway, a breezy Bildungsroman meets road trip that suits the Boston-born Towles's ...

  4. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

    Amor Towles. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year 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 and ...

  5. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY

    An exhilarating ride through Americana. Newly released from a work farm in 1950s Kansas, where he served 18 months for involuntary manslaughter, 18-year-old Emmett Watson hits the road with his little brother, Billy, following the death of their father and the foreclosure of their Nebraska farm. They leave to escape angry townspeople who ...

  6. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles review

    The Lincoln Highway is America's oldest coast-to-coast road: "It starts in Times Square in New York City and it ends three thousand three hundred and ninety miles away in Lincoln Park in San ...

  7. 'The Lincoln Highway,' by Amor Towles book review

    Amor Towles's 'The Lincoln Highway' is a long and winding road through the hopes and failures of mid-century America. Review by Hamilton Cain. October 5, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. 16. On a ...

  8. Review: Amor Towles new road trip novel 'The Lincoln Highway'

    On the Shelf. The Lincoln Highway. By Amor Towles Viking: 592 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent ...

  9. The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

    — Los Angeles Times [E]xhilarating . . . this multiperspective story offers an abundance of surprising detours and run-ins." —Gregory Cowles, The New York Times Book Review "Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway, a big book of camaraderie and adventure in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast. Set over ...

  10. The Lincoln Highway

    About The Lincoln Highway #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."

  11. Review: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

    The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a big work of fiction about the complicated journey of adulthood.. Towles' previous book A Gentleman in Moscow published in 2016—I loved that novel and thought it was such a warmhearted tale. It spent two years on the New York Times bestsellers list and wow, what a hard accomplishment to follow. As a result, The Lincoln Highway was met with much ...

  12. The Lincoln Highway, Book Review: Amor Towles' heroic dogma

    Book Review. After raving over Amor Towles debut novel Rules of Civility, I was very much looking forward to reading his highly anticipated third novel The Lincoln Highway.It is featured in countless Best Books of 2021 lists, and the Amazon Book Review editors even named this their #1 book of the year.. Towles once again displays his skill and dare I say it, devotion to character development.

  13. The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

    Buy The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller 1 by Towles, Amor (ISBN: 9781786332523) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. ... -- Jeffrey Archer Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth ― The New York Times Book Review A big hearted adventure told with ...

  14. The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

    Amor Towles is the author of New York Times bestsellers RULES OF CIVILITY, A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, and THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, as well as the short story collection TABLE FOR TWO. His books have collectively sold more than six million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages.

  15. The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

    — Los Angeles Times [E]xhilarating . . . this multiperspective story offers an abundance of surprising detours and run-ins." —Gregory Cowles, The New York Times Book Review "Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway, a big book of camaraderie and adventure in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast. Set over ...

  16. Book Marks reviews of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

    At nearly 600 pages, The Lincoln Highway is remarkably brisk, remarkably buoyant. Though dark shadows fall across its final chapters, the book is permeated with light, wit, youth ... when we look through his lens we see that this brief interstice teems with stories, grand as legends. Read Full Review >>. Rave Hamilton Cain,

  17. The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

    The original coast-to-coast highway was The Lincoln Highway, which opened in 1913, beginning in Times Square, New York and ending in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. The route is a homage to that great President, though much of the story concerns good (even great) aspirations that falter through taking the wrong turnings or simply being in the ...

  18. The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

    The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller. Hardcover - 21 October 2021. by Amor Towles (Author) 78,510. See all formats and editions. Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. 'An absolute beauty of a book.

  19. The Lincoln Highway : A New York Times Number One Bestseller

    THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by ...

  20. All Book Marks reviews for The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

    At nearly 600 pages, The Lincoln Highway is remarkably brisk, remarkably buoyant. Though dark shadows fall across its final chapters, the book is permeated with light, wit, youth ... when we look through his lens we see that this brief interstice teems with stories, grand as legends. Read Full Review >>.