Mickelsson's Ghosts
of John Gardner
Description
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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 610 pages
- Publisher New Directions
- Publication Date September 24th 2008
- First Publication 11/06/82
- Language English
- ISBN 9780811216791
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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