{"product_id":"9780811216791","title":"Mickelsson's Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007743049968,"sku":"9780811216791","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811216791_p0.jpg?v=1763729377","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811216791","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}