![]() Then Duchess and Woolly turn up, friends of Emmett and newly escaped from Salina. Billy is convinced she’s in San Francisco and is sure they’ll find her at the July 4th celebrations, travelling there along the Lincoln Highway which crosses the country from east to west. Eight-year-old Billy has other ideas, having found the postcards their mother sent after she left them when he was a baby, hidden in a drawer by their father. Having found himself a job with the local carpenter, he’d saved enough money to buy a Studebaker and gained sufficient skills to set himself up fixing-up houses before his detention, his eyes set on Texas. His father has recently died deeply in debt but Emmett has a plan. Seventeen-year-old Emmett has been released early from Salina, the youth detention centre where he was sentenced to spend eighteen months for involuntary manslaughter. That’s why it’s usually more trouble than it’s worth to explain yourself. Most people need a ladder and a telescope to make sense of two plus two. Towles’ book turned out to be a 1950s American odyssey which takes three young men and an eight-year-old boy on a series of adventures beginning in Nebraska. That didn’t stop me from putting my hand up for a proof of The Lincoln Highway whose stylish jacket seemed to offer the prospect of a road novel, long enough to sink into. ![]() I loved Amor Towles Rules of Civility but, for some reason that I can’t now remember, could not get on with A Gentleman in Moscow at all. ![]()
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