Harding Lindsey
Harding Lindsey - Pilgrims 2.0 A Novel - Paperback
Harding Lindsey - Pilgrims 2.0 A Novel - Paperback
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Description: A novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery. Pilgrim Canterbury Cruise Line's flagship promises its passengers not just a luxurious fortnight away but the opportunity for reinvention. This extraordinary journey is made possible by the captain and visionary plastic surgeon Dr. Walter Heston by the vessel's self - learning artificial intelligence called BECC a and an all - male crew of room stewards deck hands technicians and cosmetic practitioners. Pilgrims 2.0 begins on the eve of Cruise #52 and follows four women eager for transformation. Meet Bianca the aging athlete determined to resume the competitive tennis career that motherhood sidelined. Meet Nicole whose mommy makeover will mean she can stop hiding herself and her debt from her husband. Meet Lyla an infertile maternity - ward nurse desperate to experience pregnancy and Annalie who wants only to stop seeing her dead twin every time she looks in the mirror. At the center of the story is Dr. Heston himself driven to do with bodies what his late wife Rebecca could do with computer code make the impossible possible. But excursions like these aren t always smooth sailing especially on this voyage where the hopes histories and obsessions of clients and crew members collide. When a disruptive crewman's pranks turn dangerous it becomes clear that some of those who embarked won t return to the Port of Los Angeles at least not fully at least not as themselves and maybe not with their lives.
Title: Pilgrims 2.0 A Novel
Author(s): Harding Lindsey
Publisher: Acre Books
Barcode: 9781946724694
Pages: 456 Pages
Publication Date: 11/15/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery. Pilgrim Canterbury Cruise Line's flagship promises its passengers not just a luxurious fortnight away but the opportunity for reinvention. This extraordinary journey is made possible by the captain and visionary plastic surgeon Dr. Walter Heston by the vessel's self - learning artificial intelligence called BECC a and an all - male crew of room stewards deck hands technicians and cosmetic practitioners. Pilgrims 2.0 begins on the eve of Cruise #52 and follows four women eager for transformation. Meet Bianca the aging athlete determined to resume the competitive tennis career that motherhood sidelined. Meet Nicole whose mommy makeover will mean she can stop hiding herself and her debt from her husband. Meet Lyla an infertile maternity - ward nurse desperate to experience pregnancy and Annalie who wants only to stop seeing her dead twin every time she looks in the mirror. At the center of the story is Dr. Heston himself driven to do with bodies what his late wife Rebecca could do with computer code make the impossible possible. But excursions like these aren t always smooth sailing especially on this voyage where the hopes histories and obsessions of clients and crew members collide. When a disruptive crewman's pranks turn dangerous it becomes clear that some of those who embarked won t return to the Port of Los Angeles at least not fully at least not as themselves and maybe not with their lives.
Title: Pilgrims 2.0 A Novel
Author(s): Harding Lindsey
Publisher: Acre Books
Barcode: 9781946724694
Pages: 456 Pages
Publication Date: 11/15/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
