If On the Road hooked you on highway fever and holy restlessness, let The Lincoln Highway by hijack your next ten days.
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- Flawed boys fleeing consequences, seeking reinvention
- Clockwork plot architecture meets jazz-rhythm chaos
- Americana myths collide w/ hard reality
- Brotherhood forged through reckless noble schemes
If Kerouac taught you that the highway is the only church worth attending, Amor Towles delivers a 1954 Nebraska departure that swaps benzedrine for blueprints—but keeps the holy restlessness intact. Emmett Watson and his kid brother set out for California, only to get hijacked by two wisecracking juvenile delinquents with their own crooked compass. What follows is a ten-day odyssey of detours, cons, and masculine reckoning across an America still drunk on post-war promises.
Towles gives you the open road as moral proving ground, not just escape hatch. His anti-heroes scheme and stumble through diners and train cars, chasing dreams that keep shapeshifting like highway mirages—and the prose hums with that same fever-pitch hunger.
The highway is the only church worth attending, and Towles knows every hymn.
What Readers Are Saying
"THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY is a gem...I savored every moment of this one." — Chris, Goodreads
"What an adventure! ...brilliantly written, it’s extremely creative, imaginative and so vivid." — Ceecee, Goodreads
"a journey of the heart...unforgettable characters who are heroes in their own right" — Angela M, Goodreads
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