EAN: 9780593489338

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light wit youth. -The New York Times Book Review A classic that we will read for years to come. -Jenna Bush Hager Read with Jenna book club A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable. - NPR 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 up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. 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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