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Oct 5, 2021 · The Lincoln Highway, which owes a debt to Huckleberry Finn, revisits American myths with a mix of warm-hearted humor and occasional outbursts of physical violence and malevolence that recall...
Oct 5, 2021 · At nearly 600 pages, “The Lincoln Highway” is remarkably brisk, remarkably buoyant. Though dark shadows fall across its final chapters, the book is permeated with light, wit, youth.
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Oct 5, 2021 · 263,569 ratings27,786 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2021) 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.
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First, I do think calling this novel The Lincoln Highwayis a bit misleading. I thought it was going to be a road trip/buddy story that took the reader on the actual Lincoln Highway where I assumed we would visit plenty of small towns on the journey, meet interesting and quirky people and get to the final destination in a big, grand finale kind of w...
We read the story from the third-hand perspectives of Emmett; his brother Billy; Woolly, one of the friends who escaped the work farm and several other characters. But we read the first-person perspectives of Duchess, the other friend who escaped the work farm and Sally, one of Emmett’s friends from Nebraska. It’s interesting that the author Amor T...
Much of the novel features Amor Towles in his signature style—warmhearted, big and epic storytelling. However, the last 60 or so pages really came out of left field for me. When I finished it, my husband asked how it was and I said, “I’m unsure.” Again, it’s a long novel but bizarrely, it almost changes in tone and genre, especially toward the end....
So what are my thoughts overall? I think the book is beautifully-written—Amor Towles really can write a truly masterful novel. But I do feel that the story missed the mark in several areas and I felt it dragged too. I’m still unsure about the tone shift because while shocking, it did not give a satisfying ending. I think this needed either an epilo...
A mixed review of the novel by Heather Caliendo, who found it beautifully-written but also dragged and confusing. She discusses the multiple perspectives, the tone shift, and the ending of the story.
Oct 4, 2021 · Amor Towles’s ‘The Lincoln Highway’ is a long and winding road through the hopes and failures of mid-century America. Review by Hamilton Cain. October 5, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. On a humid...
Oct 5, 2021 · Find out what Kirkus Reviews thinks of The Lincoln Highway, a historical fiction novel by Amor Towles, and other books in various genres. Read the verdicts, ratings, and summaries of the latest releases and classics.
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Nov 30, 2021 · This novel was the Jenna's Book Club pick for October 2021 and has a significant approval rating amongst Goodreads reviewers, with 86% of readers giving it a 4- or 5-star review, leading to its...
