![]() ![]() Spanning ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles’s third novel is a multilayered tale of misadventure and self-discovery, populated by an eclectic cast of characters, from drifters who make their home riding the rails and larger-than-life vaudevillians to the aristocrats of the Upper East Side. 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. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’sintention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew.īut when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the workforce have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. ![]() In June 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served 15 months for involuntary manslaughter. ![]()
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