Scott Fitzgerald and its title from George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation. His first novel, Rules of Civility, set among social strivers in New York City in 1936, took its inspiration from F. Again, one of the ideas Towles explores is how evil can be offset by decency and kindness on any rung of the socio-economic ladder. Like his first two novels, The Lincoln Highway is elegantly constructed and compulsively readable. But 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. If this book were set today, their constant detours and U-turns would send GPS into paroxysms of navigational recalculations. Amor Towles' new Great American Road Novel tails four boys - three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus a brainy 8-year-old - as they set out from Nebraska in June, 1954, in an old Studebaker in pursuit of a better future. With four kids in an old Studebaker, Amor Towles takes readers on a real joyride by Heller McAlpin for NPR, October 5, 2021 Towles's meticulous storytelling holds lessons we could use more of today. The book is about trust in good and bad people, hope, changed plans, and the ability to change with them.
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