THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

FROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW

'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER

'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH

'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast' ANN PATCHETT

In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his ...

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 juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months 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 ...

Nummer 1 New York Times-bestseller, al meer dan een miljoen exemplaren verkocht in de VS – een met vaart geschreven en gelaagde roman over drie vrienden en een achtjarige jongen die zichzelf ontdekken in het Amerika van de jaren vijftigDe zomer van 1954: na anderhalf jaar in de jeugdinrichting Salina te hebben vastgezeten, keert de achttienjarige Emmett Watson terug naar zijn ouderlijk huis in Nebraska. Het enige wat daar nog op hem wacht is zijn kleine broertje Billy. Emmetts moeder verlie...

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles

The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male eg...