![]() ![]() Not much links this novel with Towles’ other work - “ Rules of Civility” and “ A Gentleman in Moscow,” two books that also have little in common except their historicity and their popularity. But they capture the essence of this old-fashioned, meandering tale of two orphaned brothers in the 1950s and their journey in search of a future. “Lovin’ to go to one place and havin’ to go to another.”ĭuchess, the felonious foil to law-abiding Emmett, does not open Amor Towles’ new novel, “ The Lincoln Highway,” with those words. ![]() “Well, that’s life in a nutshell, ain’t it,” says Duchess, recently escaped from a boys’ detention center in Salina, Kan., and recently arrived at his friend Emmett’s Nebraska farm. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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