The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner is 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.
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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Hardback Editions
October 1982 : Hardback
| Title: Mickelsson's Ghosts Author(s): John Gardner ISBN: 0-436-17251-8 / 978-0-436-17251-9 (UK edition) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 1982 : Hardback
| Title: MICKELSSON'S GHOSTS Author(s): John Gardner ISBN: 0-394-50468-2 / 978-0-394-50468-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
September 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Mickelsson's Ghosts (New Directions Paperbook) Author(s): John Gardner ISBN: 0-8112-1679-9 / 978-0-8112-1679-1 (USA edition) Publisher: New Directions Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 1989 : Paperback
| Title: MICKELSSON'S GHOSTS Author(s): John Gardner ISBN: 0-679-72308-0 / 978-0-679-72308-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1985 : Paperback
| Title: Mickelsson's Ghosts (Arena Books) Author(s): John Gardner ISBN: 0-09-935090-4 / 978-0-09-935090-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Arrow Bks. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 1985 : Paperback
| Title: MICKELSSON'S GHOST Author(s): John Gardner ISBN: 0-394-72938-2 / 978-0-394-72938-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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