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 ...

“The Lincoln Highway” is the latest book from award-winning author Amor Towles. This book is unusual in several respects: its length, its format — with multiple points of view/narrators — and its ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

This fall, Amor Towles is going from Russia to... Nebraska. The acclaimed author — who worked in investing for more than 20 years before pivoting to full-time writing — solidified his position as a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Whenever I come to a new town, I like to get my bearings. I want to understand the layout of the ...

SHOP LOCAL Amor Towles’s third novel, “The Lincoln Highway,” is at No. 4 in its 13th week on the hardcover fiction list. Here’s a small but notable fact about the former Wall Streeter turned full-time ...

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 ...