{"title":"Amor Towles","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-lincoln-highway","title":"The Lincoln Highway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Finely observed and beautifully written. Amor Towles is that rare combination of writer and storyteller.' \u003c\/strong\u003eJEFFREY ARCHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e_________________________\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eA Gentleman in Moscow.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, \u003cem\u003eThe Lincoln Highway \u003c\/em\u003eis an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264083968294,"sku":"lincoln-highway","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/907e5ee0-b973-441f-812f-7ad02f14cb89.jpg?v=1701092332"},{"product_id":"table-for-two","title":"Table For Two","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMillions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Towles’s novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRules of Civility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself―and others―in a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTable for Two\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for The Lincoln Highway:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rollicking cross-country adventure, rife with unforgettable characters, vivid scenery and suspense\u003cbr\u003ethat will keep readers flying through the pages.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegantly constructed and compulsively readable . . . hitch onto this delightful tour de force and you'll be pulled straight through to the end, helpless against the inventive exuberance of Towles' storytelling.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wise and wildly entertaining . . . Towles goes all in on the kind of episodic, exuberant narrative\u003cbr\u003ehaywire found in myth or Homeric epic.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47757710328102,"sku":"9781529154108","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/c5feb1ac-7c49-4790-8703-574768aa63be.jpg?v=1709306839"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/amor-towles.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}