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Lincolnova dálnice

by Amor Towles

552 pages2022VyšehradISBN 9788076017153

About this book

Mnohovrstevnatý román amerického autora, který prostřednictvím bratrů Watsonů líčí Ameriku v padesátých letech 20. století. V červnu roku 1954 se osmnáctiletý Emmett Watson vrací domů do Nebrasky. Veze ho správce nápravného zařízení, kde si mladík právě odsloužil rok za neúmyslné zabití. Po nedávné smrti otce propadla rodinná farma bance, a tak má Emmett jasný plán: vzít svého osmiletého bratra a začít nový život na západě. Když však správce odjede, Emmett zjistí, že s nimi tajně přijeli dva uprchlí kamarádi z nápravného zařízení. A že mají o blízké budoucnosti úplně jinou představu. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Publication Details

Publisher
Vyšehrad
Published
2022
Pages
552
ISBN
9788076017153
Language
cs

About Amor Towles

Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His thesis at Stanford, a short story cycle called “The Temptations of Pleasure”, was published in 1989 in Paris Review 112. Mr. Towles’s first novel, Rules of Civility, which was published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book has been translated into over 15 languages, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film. Mr. Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was published in 2016, was on the New York Times bestseller list for over forty weeks in hardcover and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. The book is being translated into over twenty languages including Russian. In the summer of 2017, the novel was optioned by EOne and the British director, Tom Harper, to be made into a 6-8 hour miniseries. Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years, Mr. Towles now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children. --http://www.amortowles.com/amor-towles-bio/

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