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For kindness begins where necessity ends.
The Lincoln Highway
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 America
Emmett Watson, eighteen, is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west, where they can start their lives anew, with his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank. When the warden drives away, Emmett learns that two work farm pals have stowed themselves in the warden's trunk. They have devised a completely new strategy for Emmett's future.
Towles' third novel, which spans only ten days and is told from multiple points of view, will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary style while also introducing new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.
For kindness begins where necessity ends.
