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The Lincoln Highway

The pages of Amor Towles’ novel are destined to be turned—and occasionally tattered—by numerous gratified readers.

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Review of ‘The Lincoln Highway’

“I guess you haven’t had your adventure yet,” 18-year-old Emmett Watson tells his 8-year-old brother, Billy, who responds, “I think we’re on it now.” And indeed they are, having set out in Emmett’s powder-blue 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser, planning to head west on the Lincoln Highway, America’s first transcontinental roadway. In light of their father’s…

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