‘Lincoln Highway’ by Amor Towles: An Excerpt
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Book Review: ‘The Lincoln Highway’ by Amor Towles
Emmett, a true American dreamer, is useless to escape, but agrees to take the fugitives a few hours east to the bus terminal in Omaha, a minor but manageable setback to the California plan. (Continues to work the numbers in her head, revises her ETA) The main agent of chaos and irrelevance to the novel, …
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Before embarking on a new project, I like to read a handful of novels written (and ideally embedded in) during the time period I’m about to get immersed in. My new novel, “The Lincoln Highway,” runs more than 10 days in June 1954, so in anticipation James Baldwin’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain” (1953); …