His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was also a New York Times bestseller and was ranked as one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. The book was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film and its French translation received the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. His first novel, Rules of Civility, published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback and was ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. Having worked as an investment professional in Manhattan for over twenty years, he now devotes himself fulltime to writing. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles’s 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.īorn and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. 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 head west where they can start their lives anew. 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.
If, after finishing " The Lincoln Highway," you want to immerse yourself in another American journey narrative, here are a few suggestions.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 It also has had a very central place in the history of American storytelling.
Some of the men in the book are figures from history and some from fancy, but whether real or imagined, almost every one of them is on his way to someplace different from where he started.” - Sally in "The Lincoln Highway," by Amor Towles (page 481).Īs Sally points out, since the earliest days, getting-up-and-going has been topic number one in the record of human endeavors. Napoleon heading off on his conquests, or King Arthur in search of the Holy Grail. It’s got twenty-six stories in it that have come down through the ages and almost every one of them is about some man going somewhere. Take that big red book that Billy is always lugging around. “Any child of ten can tell you that getting-up-and-going is topic number one in the record of man’s endeavors.
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