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John Gardner and
Joel Gardner (photographer)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New Directions
Publication date
September 29, 2008
Pages
590
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811216791
ISBN-10
0811216799
Dimensions
1.50 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
1.28 lbs.
Original list price
$19.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
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.Editions
Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (May 1, 1982)
9780394504681 | details & prices | List price $16.95
About: Hoping to pull his life back together, a distraught philosophy professor rents an old Pennsylvania farm house and is haunted by ghosts reiterating an old murder
About: Hoping to pull his life back together, a distraught philosophy professor rents an old Pennsylvania farm house and is haunted by ghosts reiterating an old murder
Paperback
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With Joel Gardner (other contributor) |
Reprint edition from New Directions (September 29, 2008)
9780811216791 | details & prices | 590 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.28 lbs | List price $19.95
About: The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.
About: The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.
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