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Mickelsson's Ghost Reprint edition
John Gardner
Mickelsson's Ghost Reprint edition
John Gardner
The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.
The final novel by John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, originally published in 1982 just months before his untimely death in a motorcycle accident, is a tour de force. The protagonist Peter Mickelsson, a former star philosophy professor at Brown, relocates to Binghamton University. On the verge of bankruptcy, separated from his wife, in questionable mental health, and drinking heavily, Mickelsson decides to buy a country house in northeastern Pennsylvania. What he encounters there are impassioned and shameless love affairs (one of which results in a regrettable pregnancy), a Mormon extremist cult, small town mythologies, the robbery of a robber, multiple murders, the ghosts of an incestuous family, Plato, and our hero's own possible insanity.
610 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 16, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780811216791 |
Publishers | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 610 |
Dimensions | 134 × 203 × 38 mm · 580 g |
Language | English |
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