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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…
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9 editions- Audiobook · English · 1982Mickelsson's GhostsBooks On Tape · 9785557074957
- Audiobook · EnglishBooks On Tape · 9785553673949
- Audiobook · EnglishBooks On Tape · 9785553673932
- Other · English · 2008Mickelsson's ghostsNew Directions · 590 pages · 9780811216791
- Other · English · 1989Mickelsson's ghostsVintage Books · 590 pages · 9780679723080
- Other · English · 1985Mickelsson's ghostsArena · 823 pages · 9780099350903
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