![]() ![]() ![]() Emmett returns home to make a plan for their future.īilly has learned a multitude of lessons in his short life, many of them from his favorite book entitled ‘Compendium of Heroes, Adventurers and Other Intrepid Travelers’. ![]() Billy’s older brother Emmett has been released early from a juvenile detention facility because their father, a single parent, has passed away. Towles begins this tale with chapter 10, in the midst of things on June 12, 1954. And as Billy observes, it is impossible to begin telling your own story until you know exactly where the middle is. This story is about stories the tellers and writers of stories and the heroic characters both classical and everyday who inspire them and live them.Īlong with young Billy, I learned the Latin term ‘ in medius res’ and how some stories begin in the midst of things or in the middle. Precocious, 8-year-old Billy picks up on insights a reader might pass right over. ![]() Readers will find clues, analogies, and symbolism throughout. I’m warning you ahead of time, pay attention to all the details along the way. He populates it with characters you simply will never forget. I love a layered, intriguing story and author Amor Towles creates exactly that. Dedicated October 31, 1913, it ran coast-to-coast through 13 states from Times Square in New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. As an FYI to everyone listening, the Lincoln Highway is one of the earliest transcontinental highway routes for automobiles across the United States of America. ![]()
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