![]() Now, this is where, as a reader, I fall off. ![]() Their aim, following a series of postcards, is to trace their mother to Los Angeles where they are sure she will be watching the fourth of July fireworks. ![]() Just to the north is the iconic Lincoln Highway, the first road to run right the way across America. ![]() The boys live in the middle of the USA, in Nebraska, where their dad failed to make a go on the farm. With his father recently deceased and the farm sold he collects his eight-year-old brother Billy, a stack of inheritance cash and his car-a powder blue, four door hardtop 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser-and they head out to find their mother. The story starts with Emmett, just released from juvenile for involuntary manslaughter but, we can tell immediately, a good guy. It is in the style of a classic 1950s American roadie and features a group of footloose young men and a couple of cars. Where the Moscow gentleman was confined to one hotel for almost the entire book, this 580 page monster of a story roams halfway across America. ![]() That’s a hard act to follow and this new novel is bigger and more ambitious with a wide cast of characters, multiple viewpoints and a storyline that deliberately goes in the wrong direction. The Lincoln Highway follows Amor Towles’ masterpiece that is A Gentleman in Moscow, which I highly recommend. ![]()
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