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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, John Edmund Gardner
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1982
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- Titel
- Mickelsson's Ghosts
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Edmund Gardner
- Verlag
- Knopf
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1982
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 590
- ISBN10
- 0394504682
- ISBN13
- 9780394504681
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Philosophisches Thema, Amerikanische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 4,05 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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