![]() ![]() The four main characters are 18-year-old “Emmett Watson”, fresh out of prison for involuntary manslaughter his 8-year-old brother, “Billy Watson” a friend of Emmett’s from his time in prison, called “Duchess” (named after a place, not a title) and Duchess’s friend and hanger-on, “Woolly”. The explains why it is that the novel is so long, while the story takes place over only a ten-day period.įurthermore, what makes it more different and complicated is that every chapter, in each part, is told from the perspective of a different character. Every moment, every conversation between the characters, their every thought, are described in detail, as if one were not reading a story but looking at a map that is slowly being rolled out – places, names, numbers, incidents all precisely tied together, minute by minute, stops marked with a star or an X. In The Lincoln Highway, Towles writes in that same style: precise, clear, and elegant, with words chosen to suit the period in which the novel is set. The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles (Publisher: Viking Oct. ![]()
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