![]() ![]() Otherwise, she’s usually giving Emmett a piece of her mind or stony silences.Īfter Emmett has been returned to his family home by the warden, Duchess and Woolly, two escapees from Salina, surprise Emmett, having stowed away in the trunk of the warden’s car. She has a soft spot for Emmett, but can only show this by cleaning the boys’ house and bringing them lovingly cooked meals. ![]() ![]() His younger brother, Billy, only eight, has been cared for by the neighbours, a farmer and his kindly, maternal daughter Sally. We see them as they set out to do this in different and at times conflicting ways.įirst up is Emmett, whose father died while he was away, leaving a farm in hock to the bank, awaiting a mortgagee sale. But these are lost boys, lacking parental love and guidance, having to overcome a misstep on their path to adulthood if they have a chance of making a life for themselves. ![]() It’s 1954 America – a conservative period full of opportunity. And instead of a man of experience and taste as our main character, we’ve got several friends around eighteen years old, young men who met at Salina, a correctional facility for youth. This time he’s taken us on a kind of road trip. Perhaps Towles needed a change from setting a novel almost entirely within the confines of a hotel – albeit a fairly grand one. The latest novel from Amor Towles, author of A Gentleman in Moscow which I simply adored, is quite a different kind of book. ![]()
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