The Lincoln Highway
内容简介
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year 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 and head west where they can start their lives anew. But after the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm had hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they hatch an altogether different plan for Emmett's future.
Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.
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作者简介
Amor Towles is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow. The two novels have collectively sold more than three million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Having worked as an investment professional for more than twenty years, Towles now devotes himself fulltime to writing in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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读书文摘
你已经还清了自己的债，我只希望你能将自己的自由物尽其用。
劳改农场的生活就是为了让你头脑迟钝的。他们在黎明叫醒你，让你工作到黄昏，给你半小时吃饭、半小时安顿，然后就熄灯了。就像中央公园里被蒙住眼睛的马一样，除了面前的两步路，什么都别想看到。
if you didn’t know enough to ask for it, then you didn’t deserve to eat it.
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