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 ...

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 ...

Amor Towles' new book is quite the joyride — The Lincoln Highway follows four kids in a 1948 Studebaker who set out along the real-life Lincoln Highway, the first highway to cross the country. Two of ...

Amor Towles, the author of the bestseller "A Gentleman in Moscow," returns with "The Lincoln Highway" (Viking), a period story of four youngsters who embark on an epic journey from Nebraska to New ...

Amor Towles’ novels, including the bestseller “A Gentleman in Moscow” and his new “The Lincoln Highway,” are so distinctive that they read like the works of different writers. In a way, they are.

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 ...

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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 ...

Francis S. Barry will offer people food for thought on democracy Friday at the St. Joseph County Public Library in downtown South Bend as he chronicles his 2020 trip along the Old Lincoln Highway, the ...

The American Association of University Women will host a presentation Sept. 11 about the history of the Lincoln Highway, the first cross-country road in the U.S. Brian Butko, director of publications ...

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 ...

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 ...