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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 upon...
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This novel about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. On the surface the novel is a love story between the protagonist Jake Barnes and the promiscuous divorcee Lady Brett Ashley. Brett's affair with Robert Cohn causes Jake to be upset and break off his friendship with Cohn; her seduction of the 19-year-old matador Romero causes...
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