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A review by mmdavoli
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
5.0
Beautifully written.
Compelling characters.
Gripping from the start.
Shakespearean tragedy in the end.
I loved everything about this book. This is the story of the brilliant 8 year old Billy, reunited with his older brother Emmett due to the death of their well intentioned but wayward father. With plans to pull up stakes and start over in California in search of the mother that abandoned them years ago, the brothers have their whole lives in front of them.
Except this is also the story of Woolly and Duchess. Two friends of Emmett who stow away and show up at just the wrong moment. Woolly is Ioveable but misbegotten. Duchess has a sense of right and wrong, he just has a questionable way of interpreting it.
Rather than begin their journey west, Emmett and Billy are forced in the complete wrong direction, from Nebraska to New York to reclaim the car Duchess “borrows”.
There is a cast of secondary characters and interactions along the way, all coming to the foreshadowed heartbreaking yet satisfying conclusion somewhere in the Adirondacks.
I really liked A Gentleman in Moscow, but thought it was a slow start that took about 1/3 of the story to get into. The Lincoln Highway was dynamic from the first page. Also it was not lost on me that A Gentleman in Moscow starts on June 21 and The Lincoln Highway ends on the same date. Wondering what significance that date holds for Amor Towels.
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Compelling characters.
Gripping from the start.
Shakespearean tragedy in the end.
I loved everything about this book. This is the story of the brilliant 8 year old Billy, reunited with his older brother Emmett due to the death of their well intentioned but wayward father. With plans to pull up stakes and start over in California in search of the mother that abandoned them years ago, the brothers have their whole lives in front of them.
Except this is also the story of Woolly and Duchess. Two friends of Emmett who stow away and show up at just the wrong moment. Woolly is Ioveable but misbegotten. Duchess has a sense of right and wrong, he just has a questionable way of interpreting it.
Rather than begin their journey west, Emmett and Billy are forced in the complete wrong direction, from Nebraska to New York to reclaim the car Duchess “borrows”.
There is a cast of secondary characters and interactions along the way, all coming to the foreshadowed heartbreaking yet satisfying conclusion somewhere in the Adirondacks.
I really liked A Gentleman in Moscow, but thought it was a slow start that took about 1/3 of the story to get into. The Lincoln Highway was dynamic from the first page. Also it was not lost on me that A Gentleman in Moscow starts on June 21 and The Lincoln Highway ends on the same date. Wondering what significance that date holds for Amor Towels.
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