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In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson returns in a prison car to his home in Nebraska after serving a fifteen-month sentence for manslaughter.
He has long lost his mother, his father has recently died, and the family farm has been foreclosed by the bank.
Emmett plans to take his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and move to California to rebuild their lives.
But when the car drives away, Emmett discovers that two of his fellow inmates from the rural reformatory – the determined, charismatic Dutchess and the simple-minded, lost-in-the-world Wooley – have holed up in the trunk.
The two have hatched a completely different plan for Emmett's future – a plan that will lead all four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction: to New York City.
Plotted over ten days, Towles' third novel is a multi-layered adventure of self-discovery, filled with a diverse cast of characters, from day-to-day vagrants following the train tracks and exuberant stand-up comedians to Upper East Side aristocrats.
An exciting, delightful journey; a novel that is vivid, flowing and moving.
He has long lost his mother, his father has recently died, and the family farm has been foreclosed by the bank.
Emmett plans to take his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and move to California to rebuild their lives.
But when the car drives away, Emmett discovers that two of his fellow inmates from the rural reformatory – the determined, charismatic Dutchess and the simple-minded, lost-in-the-world Wooley – have holed up in the trunk.
The two have hatched a completely different plan for Emmett's future – a plan that will lead all four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction: to New York City.
Plotted over ten days, Towles' third novel is a multi-layered adventure of self-discovery, filled with a diverse cast of characters, from day-to-day vagrants following the train tracks and exuberant stand-up comedians to Upper East Side aristocrats.
An exciting, delightful journey; a novel that is vivid, flowing and moving.
