When I first outlined The Lincoln Highway, the plan was to describe the story from two alternating perspectives: Emmett’s (in the third person) and Duchess’s (in the first person). Q & A with Amor TowlesĬan you talk about the shifting points of view in the book?

If you enjoy reading about boys on adventures, check out The Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Amor Towles doesn’t disappoint with his engaging characters and unique storytelling… surely an enjoyable ride! Thank you to for publishing my review! Recommendation The Lincoln Highway is a slice of 1950s America with boys who have been dealt a bad hand taking their chances at survival, relying on friendship, instinct and dreams. Meeting lots of strange characters along the way, the story has a Huck Finn quality that is charming, adventurous and witty and portrays lives of young boys surviving on their own and learning along the way. This detour is the beginning of a series of detours and alterations in plans…these memorable, eccentric characters travel The Lincoln Highway heading east in a blue Studebaker, outrunning their demons, getting even with those who set them back, and collecting what they believe they are owed. Duchess and Woolly want to go to New York to collect Woolly’s inheritance and Emmett agrees to drive them to the train. With two unexpected stowaways, Emmett’s bunkmates from the jail, Duchess, the son of a vaudeville performer, and Woolly, oddball son of a wealthy family, the journey to the west coast gets off course. The two boys decide to leave their bullies behind and embark on a journey to California to make a fresh start Emmett can find work as a carpenter and they hope find their mother by who abandoned them many years ago. After serving time in jail for over a year, the teenager comes home to the family’s farm in Nebraska after his father passed away to take care of his younger brother, Billy. Drawn in on page one (of close to 600 pages), I thoroughly enjoyed spending 10 days with 18 year old Emmett and the others in 1954. By the author of Rules of Civility and The Gentleman in Moscow (which I loved), The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles’ newest piece of work is sure to entertain.

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