The Lincoln Highway Is A Warm Embrace I Will Never Forget.
Review Of A Historical Fiction - Adventure - Coming Of Age Novel By Amor Towles
About The Book
Emmett returns home to pick-up his little brother Billy, tie-up his late father's estate and get out of town for good. Since leaving the Kansas youth facility where he's served time, Emmett has wanted one thing: to give them both a fresh start - and that means heading out to the sparkling west.
Young, precocious Billy has plans of his own - to get to San Francisco, where he believes their long-estranged mother is waiting for them. However, as soon as they've loaded Emmett's bright blue Studebaker with their few belongings, trouble arrives and brings its sidekick in the form of Duchess and Woolly, two runaways from the very facility Emmett just left behind him.
Insatiable Duchess and his devoted, but slow companion Woolly soon wreck Billy's plan to get onto the open road, one well-intentioned blunder at a time. Each young man sees this journey as his chance to pursue his dreams, settle scores and find riches. And a simple journey quickly becomes a dazzling odyssey filled with obstacles, villains and ruses fit only for heroes to overcome.
Bursting with life, charm and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from a master storyteller.
What I Loved About The Book
I love how this novel feels finished and unfinished at the same time. Like it's ending and beginning at the same time. Like Life itself.
When I finished this book, I was on the verge of tears, happy and sad. I was both sorry and grateful. It took me a considerable amount of control to make myself write this review and not burst into tears.
The story of Emmett, Billy, Woolly, Duchess, and Sally (along with the supporting cast) taught me that life is as simple and as complicated as you make it. And it's always in your hand to do so.
Cruising through this book, I felt emotional, and I related to each character's circumstances.
This book also enlightened me that every person's life is a story worth discovering. It's not only the hero who is celebrated that is worth talking about. Even ordinary people like us have some experience in our lives worth writing down and reading.
As with the author's writing style, it flows like water from the mountains, has underlying wisdom to it and makes you feel cosy.
Like the author's previous book, A Gentleman In Moscow, The Lincoln Highway is a warm embrace I will never forget.
