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Mickelssons GhostJohn Gardner
LiteraryYoung Adult

Mickelssons Ghost

590 pagesFirst published 19829 editions
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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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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionNew Directions20085909780811216791
EditionVintage Books19895909780679723080
EditionArena19858239780099350903
EditionVintage Books19855909780394729381
EditionKnopf : Distributed by Random House19825909780394504681
AudiobookBooks On Tape1982—9785557074957
EditionSecker & Warburg19825669780436172519
AudiobookBooks On Tape——9785553673932
AudiobookBooks On Tape——9785553673949
FictionMiddle-aged menTeenage girlsFiction, general