Review: History, adventure 衝突する／食い違う in 'The Lincoln 主要道路'
"The Lincoln 主要道路," by Amor Towles (Viking)
Home is different for 18-year-old Emmett Watson when he returns from a juvenile 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 for accidentally 殺人，大当り a いじめ（る） in a fistfight.
It´s the 1950s in Nebraska. Emmett´s father has died and the family farm was foreclosed on. Emmett is now the 管理人 for his little brother, Billy.
What the brothers do have, aside from each other, is Emmett´s prize Studebaker and an envelope with $3,000 cash their father left.
So begins Amor Towles´ new novel, "The Lincoln 主要道路." This is Towles´ third novel. He authored the celebrated "A Gentleman in Moscow" and "支配するs of Civility." Before Towles started 令状ing, he worked as a financier.
The Lincoln 主要道路 was the first transcontinental 主要道路 in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, crossing 13 明言する／公表するs.
This cover image 解放（する）d by Viking shows "The Lincoln 主要道路" by Amor Towles. (Viking 経由で AP)
"It was invented in 1912 and was 指名するd for Abraham Lincoln and was the very first road to stretch from one end of America to another," the 調書をとる／予約する reads. "It starts in Times Square and it ends 3,390 miles away in Lincoln Park in Sa n Francisco."
But the 主要道路 is only a peripheral setting for Emmett´s story. Most of the 調書をとる／予約する takes place in New York City.
Billy 納得させるs Emmett to 運動 to San Francisco in hopes of finding their mother, who abandoned the family. The only word from her is a 追跡する of postcards. Emmett agrees to the sojourn but he´s surprised to learn two boys, friends from 刑務所，拘置所, had stowed away in the warden´s car.
Dutchess and Woolley brazenly steal the car and 長，率いる to New York City. Once Emmett realizes his only 所有／入手 was taken, he and Billy hop a freight train to New York. They 会合，会う a cast of characters competing for different 利益／興味s.
The story is told through the 視野s of the different characters. If you like history and adventure, "The Lincoln 主要道路" might be for you. It´s nearly 600 pages but doesn´t feel overdrawn. The pace is 急速な／放蕩な and 令状ing concise, making it a digestible read whether in bed or at a loud coffee shop.
