内容简介
1954年6月，18岁的埃米特在少年劳改农场服完15个月的刑，被监狱长载回内布拉斯加州的家。他的父亲刚刚离世，家庭农场和住所因欠债被银行没收。埃米特与弟弟比利决定离开家乡，前往加利福尼亚州寻找多年前离家出走的母亲，并开始新生活。但两位朋友达奇斯和伍利的不期而至打乱了兄弟俩的计划，并将他们引向了完全相反的目的地——纽约。十天之后，故事迎来了大结局：有人拥有了崭新的开始，内心更为坚定；有人则陨落于苦涩的命运与自身的缺陷。
作者简介
埃默·托尔斯（Amor Towles）
1964年出生于美国波士顿地区，本科毕业于耶鲁大学,后在斯坦福大学取得文学硕士学位。其后二十年间托尔斯在纽约一家投资公司任职。
他47岁出版第*一部小说《上流法则》，此书一鸣惊人，成为当年的书市黑马，并获得《华尔街日报》2011年度十大好书、2012年的菲茨杰拉德文学奖等多项殊荣。他的第二和第三部长篇小说《莫斯科绅士》《林肯公路》出版后也都高踞各大年度好书榜，被比尔·盖茨和美国前总统奥巴马列入个人喜爱书单。
目前他的三部作品已被翻译成三十多种语言。
Content introduction
In June 1954, at the age of 18, Emmett served a 15-month sentence on a juvenile labor farm and was driven home to Nebraska by the warden. His father had just died, and the family farm and home had been seized for debt. Emmett and his brother Billy decide to leave their hometown and head to California to find their mother, who ran away from home many years ago, and start a new life. But the unexpected arrival of two friends, Dachis and Woolley, disrupts the brothers' plans and leads them to the exact opposite destination - New York. Ten days later, the story comes to an end: someone with a new beginning and a stronger heart; Others fall to bitter fates and their own inadequacies.
About the author
Amor Towles
Born in 1964 in the Boston area, he received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his Master of Arts degree from Stanford University. For the next twenty years Toles worked at an investment firm in New York.
At the age of 47, he published his first novel, The Law of Upper Class, which became a surprise and became a dark horse in the book market that year, and won the Wall Street Journal's Top Ten books of 2011 and the Fitzgerald Literary Award in 2012. His second and third novels, "A Gentleman in Moscow" and "Lincoln Highway," both topped annual books lists and were included in personal favorite books by Bill Gates and former US President Barack Obama.
His three books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
