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Oct 5, 2021 · Duchess, the felonious foil to law-abiding Emmett, does not open Amor Towles’ new novel, “ The Lincoln Highway ,” with those words. But they capture the essence of this old-fashioned ...
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Oct 1, 2021 · June 12, 1954, is a red-letter day. Emmett Watson, 18, has just returned to Nebraska from 15 months at a juvenile work farm in Kansas. An unfortunately placed punch in response to the taunts of a ...
Oct 25, 2021 · Synopsis. In The Lincoln Highway, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska in June 1954 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 ...
Oct 13, 2021 · Applied to the Lincoln Highway, Towles writes that Carl G. Fisher “built the first sections in 1913 with the help of donations” from prosperous individuals like Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Edison.
Oct 5, 2021 · And though on the way into town, ten cars had passed me before the mechanic picked me up, on the way back to the Watsons’, the first car that came along pulled over to offer me a ride. [ Return ...
