The Last Cruise

By Kate Christensen

Book Overview

A high-seas adventure--"The Love Boat meets Lord of the Flies" (Newsday)--that combines the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man's signature wit and humanity.

The 1950s vintage 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 the bygone mid-twentieth-century era of decadent luxury cruising, 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 '50s, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below decks intrude on the festivities, throwing a trio of strangers together in an unexpected and startling test of character.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307951111
• ISBN13: 9780307951113
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"