The Last Cruise by Kate Christensen
The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage--a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back--before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it's a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones--or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless mid-twentieth century, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below deck intrude on the festivities, throwing a trio of strangers together in an unexpected and startling test of character.Kate Christensen is the author of six previous books, including The Epicure's Lament and The Great Man, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Prize for Fiction. She has written for a variety of magazines, including The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Cherry Bombe, Vogue, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, and countless anthologies, about food, drink, life, and books. At katechristensen.net, she writes about cuisine and life in New England. Christensen splits his time between Portland, Maine, and New Hampshire's White Mountains.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307951113 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307951111 |
| Title | The Last Cruise |
| Author | Kate Christensen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2019-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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