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Get the Summary of Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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...
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The Lincoln Highway (2021) chronicles the adventures of two young Nebraskan brothers, Emmett and Billy, as they travel across America in 1954. Emmett is just back from juvie when two boys from the prison show up at his home with a wild tale of treasure in New York City. Emmett agrees to take the pair of escapees as far as Omaha, but they steal his Studebaker along the way. Emmett...
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"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...
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A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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"Amor Towles vuelve con una historia colosal sobre el viaje iniciático de cuatro jóvenes por el corazón de Estados Unidos durante la década de los años cincuenta. Contada desde múltiples puntos de vista y poblada por un variado elenco de personajes magnéticos, desde vagabundos que malviven entre raíles hasta aristócratas del Upper East Side, La autopista Lincoln es una novela arrolladora de encuentros y desencuentros, un azaroso tránsito...
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Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel and a timeless example of his spare but powerful writing. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the...
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Droga nie zawsze prowadzi nas tam, gdzie chcemy. Ale czasem trzeba dać się jej ponieść. Emmett Watson właśnie wyszedł z poprawczaka. Wraca na rodzinną farmę w Nebrasce, gdzie czeka na niego młodszy brat, długi po ojcu i błękitny studebaker - jego jedyny majątek. Emmett ledwo skończył 18 lat, a już może liczyć tylko na siebie. Chce zabrać brata do słonecznej Kalifornii, gdzie zaczną wszystko od nowa. Może nawet uda im się...
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