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\nBook Summary:
\nThe bestsellin g author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of abso rbing\, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America
\nIn June\, 1954\, eighteen-year-old Emmett Wat son is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone\, h is father recently deceased\, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the b ank\, Emmett&rsquo\;s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother a nd head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden dr ives away\, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidd en themselves in the trunk of the warden&rsquo\;s car. Together\, they hav e hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett&rsquo\;s future.
\nSpanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view\, Towles&rsq uo\;s third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings\, charac ters\, and themes.
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