A review by camarks1
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

2.0

Long and unlike Towles's earlier books, easy to put down. The prose is excellent in parts, but the story and main character are lacking. There are gimmicks, like the chapters being numbered in descending order, that are more desperate and distracting than helpful. The novel implies that it starts "in medias res" but in my opinion, that's where it ends. However, it would have been better, if not good, with the final section omitted. And at nearly 600 pages why not that, along with a few other deletions? There are several doubtful and outright anachronistic passages, like when reference is made to "In God We Trust" on paper money, which didn't happen until three years after the novel is set. Disappointing, and I certainly would not have finished it if I had not thoroughly enjoyed Towles's previous novels.