false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223456070m/32538.jpg 32538 5 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. 2720367 1982 Mickelsson's Ghosts total:85|5:31|4:26|3:21|2:4|1:3| 85 333 125 14 5 3 false false Fri Nov 28 04:27:38 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 04:36:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 05:06:20 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 05:06:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 15 11:32:44 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 11:44:16 -0700 2009 A weighty tome with supernatur...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Feb 04 19:49:16 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 20:28:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 22 17:24:13 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 06:48:32 -0800 2008
It's the type of thing one reads and is confused not b/c he doesn't get it-but that he actually does.

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