Home is different for 18-year-old Emmett Watson when he returns from a juvenile prison sentence for accidentally killing a bully in a fistfight. It's the 1950s in Nebraska. Emmett's father has died ...

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Viking) was named the Best Book of the Year by Amazon Books editors. Editorial director Sarah Gelman said the novel was “the perfect book for the times,” noting ...

Amor Towles, the author of the bestseller "A Gentleman in Moscow," returns with "The Lincoln Highway" (Viking), a period story of four youngsters who embark on an epic journey from Nebraska to New ...

Amor Towles has transported readers to a hotel in a changing Russia ("A Gentleman in Moscow") and the roads of the U.S. in the 1950's ("The Lincoln Highway," a Read With Jenna pick). For his next book ...

Kirkus Reviews calls Amor Towles' new novel, "The Lincoln Highway," a remarkable blend of sweetness and doom. The author of the bestselling and highly acclaimed "A Gentleman In Moscow" has written a ...

It is June 1954 in Amor Towles’ fine new novel, “The Lincoln Highway.” Eighteen-year-old Emmet Watson and his 8-year-old brother Billy are planning to drive from Nebraska to San Francisco to find ...

Amor Towles' new book is quite the joyride — The Lincoln Highway follows four kids in a 1948 Studebaker who set out along the real-life Lincoln Highway, the first highway to cross the country. Two of ...

Combining familiar elements of the picaresque, a road trip, a getaway car and the hero’s journey, Amor Towles’ absorbing new novel, "The Lincoln Highway" (Viking, 592 pp., ★★★½ out of four), is a ...

Amor Towles had never actually been beneath the vaulted ceiling of an Adirondack lake house when he described the one in his 2011 debut, the best-selling Rules of Civility. He could only imagine the ...

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Naming a book the best of the year is no easy task, especially in a year like 2021 that's been stacked with heavy hitters and crowd-pleasers. There were new books by literary titans, including Nobel ...

THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY. By Amor Towles. Viking. 592 pages. $30. Home is different for 18-year-old Emmett Watson when he returns from a juvenile prison sentence for accidentally killing a bully in a ...