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Author Enger, Leif, author.

Title I cheerfully refuse : a novel / Leif Enger.

Edition First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Grove Press, 2024.
©2024
4 holds on first copy returned of 7 copies
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3134771~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Fiction-NEW  F ENGER    DUE 05-15-24
 95th Street Adult Fiction-NEW  F ENGER    DUE 04-27-24
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction-NEW  F ENGER    DUE 04-29-24
 Nichols Adult Fiction Popular Picks  F ENGER    DUE 05-11-24
 Nichols Adult Fiction Popular Picks  F ENGER    DUE 05-12-24
 Nichols Adult Fiction-NEW  F ENGER    ON HOLDSHELF
 Nichols Adult Fiction-NEW  F ENGER    ON HOLDSHELF
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Description 330 pages : 24 cm.
Summary "Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy's private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake. I Cheerfully Refuse epitomizes the "musical, sometimes magical and deeply satisfying kind of storytelling" (Los Angeles Times) for which Leif Enger is cherished. A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, this latest novel is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Ocean travel -- Fiction.
Genre Action and adventure fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
ISBN 9780802162939 hc
0802162932 hc
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