Austin, Texas, 31 July, 2020 – Plain View Press announces the release of The Last Resort: A Novel by Kay Tobler Liss, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 31, 2020.

A Manhattan attorney in turmoil finds a remote resort on the end Long Island, where a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land, give him an appreciation of nature, environmental and social justice, and a new purpose in life. With career and marriage in turmoil, he 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, the tension between past and present comes alive and he finds new meaning in life through the natural world and social justice for a long-oppressed race of people.

As a writer and editor, Kay Tobler Liss worked for newspapers and magazines in New York and Maine for many decades, including Sunstorm Arts, House and Hamptons Magazine, and was managing editor of The Shelter Island Reporter. Liss studied Literature at Bard College and Environmental Studies at Southampton College and taught courses in both fields in New York and Maine. She lived in Montauk, New York for 13 years and now lives in Maine.

“The Last Resort depicts the spiritual journey of a broken man who replenishes his spirit and finds his true self in reconnecting with the natural world. In scenes of surfing in the wild ocean, the blossoming of a romance, and the struggles of the native Montauketts to reclaim their ancestral land, Liss captures the essence of Montauk in all its raw beauty. With luminous prose embedded with philosophical ruminations and Native American truths, this haunting, dreamlike narrative will linger long in the reader’s consciousness.”
—Celine Keating, author of Layla and Play for Me, and co-editor of On Montauk: A Literary Celebration

Copies of The Last Resort, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-080-1) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-081-8), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.