{"product_id":"mickelssons-ghost-9780394729381","title":"Mickelsson's Ghost","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMickelsson's Ghost\u003c\/strong\u003e by Gardner, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780394729381.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements. The final novel by John Gardner, Mickelssons 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 heros own possible insanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116107587637,"sku":"ByrdShop_0394729382","price":97.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780394729381_b5bdca84-9162-455e-8789-b160d76e83f8.jpg?v=1781312693","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mickelssons-ghost-9780394729381","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}