num_pages: 576
description: 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 AmericaIn 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 Emmetts intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west 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 wardens car. Together they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmetts future.Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view Towless 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.
language: English
title: The Lincoln Highway
publisher: Viking