'It’s a story about hope, friendship and companionship in a time when we need it so much.'
The novel is about three 18-year-old boys: Emmett Watson, Woolly and Duchess, and Watson’s eight-year-old brother, Billy, who travel from Nebraska to New York City in the 1950s searching for adventure and a fresh start.
For Towles, this novel was a completely different challenge from his previous two books,"Rules of Civility" and"A Gentleman in Moscow.""One of the things I like to do as I shift from one novel to another, from one project to another, is to make a major shift in what the novel demands of me as a writer. So my last novel, 'A Gentleman in Moscow,' is about an older man, who's an aristocrat in Russia and who is stuck in a hotel for 30 years," said Towles.
"At the end, I actually went back when the book was finished and I changed the main character's birthday to December 12, 1935, because that's the day my father was born," said Towles.
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