SUMMARY Of The Lincoln Highway: A Novel By Amor Towles

By Francis Thomas

The Lincoln Highway By Amor Towles

Girls was a semi-popular HBO television production that aired from 2012-2017.One episode toward the end of the show's run had Marnie (one of the "Girls") in a bad spot. As so many do in real life, she was looking to shift the blame for

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookSummaryGr
• Release date: Sep 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088010303

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Introduction

Girls was a semi-popular HBO television production that aired from 2012-2017. To say that it was not for everyone is quite the understatement. The show could be very crude, and your religion didn’t have to lean Pentecostal for you to feel that way.

Just the same, the series was at times very well written and insightful. One episode toward the end of the show’s run had Marnie (one of the Girls) in a bad spot. As so many do in real life, she was looking to shift the blame for her declining situation to others only for a grizzled, one-time character to tell her something along the lines of I’ve never seen anyone at the pawn shop because of what others did.

The actual piece of televised dialogue was much better put. Once again, the writing on Girls was at times very good. The episode mentioned came to mind while reading The Lincoln Highway, the latest novel by mega-bestselling author Amor Towles. What will be described as Highway going forward is Towles’s third book, after he garnered major popularity with his debut The Rules of Civility, followed by A Gentleman In Moscow. Both novels were good reads, with A Gentleman In Moscow spectacular.

On to the economics.

As previously mentioned, Emmett returns from Salina to a farm that is being foreclosed on. He’s understandably terse with Tom Obermeyer, the banker overseeing the foreclosure. Obermeyer expresses great remorse, and makes plain that no bank makes a loan in hopes of foreclosing. No, they don’t. Precisely because bank loans don’t have an equity quotient, banks need them to perform. Obermeyer’s line is a corrective of the laughable commentary from the Left back in 2008 that predatory lenders essentially forced money on unsuspecting borrowers with no means to pay monies borrowed back. The narrative always vandalized reason, but its ferocious stupidity continues to animate Lefty commentary. To this day they promote what defies common sense; that loan sources quite literally targeted those incapable of paying them back.

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