![]() ![]() ![]() They have a plan of their own: to steal a fat wad of cash from Woolly’s family safe, located all the way in New York. However, fate throws a solid wrench in these plans in the form of Woolly and Duchess, two escapees from the juvenile work farm who hitched a ride in the trunk of the bus which brought Emmett here. ![]() To heap just a bit more misery on top of them, the bank is foreclosing the family farm, leaving the boys with but one sensible recourse: travel to California in hopes of starting their lives anew, and perhaps finding their mother. Upon returning home, he finds his father recently deceased, and his mother long gone, with Billy believing she drove off to California. ![]() He has recently served fifteen months at a juvenile work farm for involuntary manslaughter, and is intent on using his newfound carpentry skills to make a life for himself and his younger brother Billy. The story takes us to the United States in June 1954, introducing us to Emmett Watson, an eighteen-year-old boy on a bus back home. In Amor Towles‘ The Lincoln Highway we get to see just how erratic life can become, and how hard it can laugh at any plans we make. While our degrees of success do vary, I think most of us will agree they are necessary to have, but shouldn’t be relied upon there are far too many unpredictable factors to contend with. As we grow older, our relation to our own plans for the future tends to change depending on how well we’re able to realize them. ![]()
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