02214cam a2200337 i 4500 539489224 TxAuBib 20211122120000.0 210525s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021024465 9780735222359 hardcover 0735222355 hardcover (OCoLC)1239649751 TxAuBib rda Towles, Amor. The Lincoln highway / Amor Towles. [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] 576 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Read with Jenna" -- front cover. "The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes"-- Provided by publisher. 20211122. cat sampler 20211101 kjw. Brothers Fiction. Juvenile work farms Fiction. Escapes Fiction. Nebraska Fiction. Historical fiction.