Mickelsson's Ghosts

by Gardner, John
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ISBN: 9780811216791
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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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Gardner, John
  • ISBN: 9780811216791
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.94 x 1.40
  • Number Of Pages: 608
  • Publication Year: 2008

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