![]() ![]() Duchess and Woolly want to go to New York to collect Woolly’s inheritance and Emmett agrees to drive them to the train. With two unexpected stowaways, Emmett’s bunkmates from the jail, Duchess, the son of a vaudeville performer, and Woolly, oddball son of a wealthy family, the journey to the west coast gets off course. ![]() The two boys decide to leave their bullies behind and embark on a journey to California to make a fresh start Emmett can find work as a carpenter and they hope find their mother by who abandoned them many years ago. ![]() After serving time in jail for over a year, the teenager comes home to the family’s farm in Nebraska after his father passed away to take care of his younger brother, Billy. Drawn in on page one (of close to 600 pages), I thoroughly enjoyed spending 10 days with 18 year old Emmett and the others in 1954. By the author of Rules of Civility and The Gentleman in Moscow (which I loved), The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles’ newest piece of work is sure to entertain. ![]()
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