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Mickelsson's ghosts

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  • "Gardner's final novel: a delicate tapestry of literary genres that create a wonderfully mysterious and ambitious narrative As Peter Mickelsson's brilliant career as a professor at Brown University winds down, he suffers from alcoholism and is on the brink of divorce. Seeking a new start, Mickelsson moves to an old farmhouse in the Pennsylvania countryside to take a position at Bingham University. But when mysterious supernatural events begin to occur, it becomes clear that these new surroundings will not provide a refuge for this troubled man, but rather prompt an introspective look into."
  • "Former star philosophy professor Peter Mickelsson buys a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside as part of an attempt to patch his life and health back together only to find himself facing a series of weird events."
  • "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."
  • "Peter Mickelsson, philosophe et universitaire miné par ses problèmes d'argent, vit dans une maison réputée hantée. Les nombreuses difficultés matérielles et sentimentales qui s'accumulent autour de lui le persuadent que quelqu'un lui en veut.--[Memento]."

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "La symphonie des spectres : roman"
  • "Mickelsson's ghosts"
  • "Mickelsson's ghosts"@en
  • "La symphonie des spectres roman"
  • "Mickelsson's ghosts a novel"@en
  • "Mickelsson's ghosts a novel"
  • "LA SYMPHONIE DES SPECTRES : roman"
  • "Mickelsson's ghosts : a novel"
  • "Mickelsson's ghosts : a novel"@en
  • "Mickelsson's ghost's : a novel"

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