Mickelsson's ghosts
a novel
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1982 - Knopf : Distributed by Random House, New York
Language
English
Word Count
147,500 words, Guess
Page Count
590 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18318362M
- ISBN-100394504682
- OCLC Control Number7976018
- OCLC Control Numbermickelssonsghost0000gard
- Library of Congress Control Number81048114
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- Goodreads761137
- LibraryThing2445993
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3557.A712 M5 1982
Description
The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements. The final novel by 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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- Mickelsson's ghosts: a novel
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