01747cam a2200289 4500 513215865 TxAuBib 20211028120000.0 210525s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021024465 9780735222359 HRD 30.00 0735222355 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib Towles, Amor, 1964- The Lincoln highway [BOOK] / Amor Towles. New York : Viking, 2021. 576 pages : map ; 24 cm. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska 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 up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Provided by publisher. 20211217. Brothers Fiction. Ex-convicts Fiction. Escaped prisoners Fiction. Railroad travel Fiction. United States History 1953-1961 Fiction. Historical fiction.