The Last Resort - Liss, Kay Tobler
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A Manhattan corporate attorney, with career and marriage in turmoil, drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island. As he struggles to put his life back together, he meets a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land threatened with development, a fight that eventually endangers her life. The tension between past and present comes alive as he finds new meaning in life through the natural world and social justice for a long-oppressed race of people. The novel takes place ion the eastern end of Long Island, the…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A Manhattan corporate attorney, with career and marriage in turmoil, drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island. As he struggles to put his life back together, he meets a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land threatened with development, a fight that eventually endangers her life. The tension between past and present comes alive as he finds new meaning in life through the natural world and social justice for a long-oppressed race of people. The novel takes place ion the eastern end of Long Island, the ancestral home of the Montauks, a Native American tribe. The story reveals how they lost their land to the settlers and historical characters come to life in a battle to preserve their land.
Autorenporträt
Kay Tobler Liss studied literature at Bard College and Environmental Studies at Southampton College and has taught courses in both fields in New York and Maine. She worked as a writer and editor for newspapers and magazines in New York. She is the author of the novel The Last Resort (Plain View Press, 2020), which was nominated for a Dayton Literary Peace Prize.