**From the author of the "jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (*People*) and international bestseller *Dear Mrs. Bird* comes a charming and uplifting** **novel set in London during World War II about a plucky young journalist and her adventures as wartime advice columnist.** London, November 1941. Follo
I Cheerfully Refuse
β Scribed by Leif Enger
- Book ID
- 114160999
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 437 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802162939
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) novelist Leif Enger.
A story-teller "of great humanity and huge heart" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which sold over a million copies and captured readers' hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author's accomplished, resonant body of work. 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...
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