Paperback. Barnes & Noble's April Book Club PickAn Amazon Top 10 Editors' PickA Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary HubSet in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. 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, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. As his essentially 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.A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, I Cheerfully Refuse is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future. A career defining tour-de-force from the New York Times bestselling, award-winning and 'formidably gifted' (Chicago Tribune) novelist Leif Enger. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Title: I Cheerfully Refuse (Paperback)
Publisher: Atlantic Books, London
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1804710822
ISBN 13: 9781804710821
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Barnes & Noble''s April Book Club Pick
An Amazon Top 10 Editors'' Pick
A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary Hub

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. 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, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. As his essentially 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.

A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, I Cheerfully Refuse is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.

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