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Barcode37821002516389
StatusChecked Out
LocationMarshall District
TitleI cheerfully refuse : a novel / Leif Enger.
AuthorEnger, Leif, author.
Call NoFIC ENG
CollectionAdult New Arrivals
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FIC ENG Due on 5/21/2024  

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780802162939
International Standard Book Number 0802162932
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.54
Personal Name Enger, Leif, author.
Title Statement I cheerfully refuse : a novel / Leif Enger.
Edition Statement First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Imprint New York : Grove Press, 2024.
Physical Description 330 pages : 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "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."
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Quests (Expeditions) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Superior, Lake Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Adventure stories.
Index Term-Genre/Form Dystopias.
Index Term-Genre/Form Fantasy fiction.