Mickelsson's Ghosts


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DIV DIVDIVGardner’s final novel: a delicate tapestry of literary genres that create a wonderfully mysterious and ambitious narrative /divDIV /div/divDIVAs 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 the ultimate value of his life’s work. /divDIV /divDIVWith distinctive style and linguistic mastery, author John Gardner weaves together a string of extraordinary plots that culminate in an unforgettable conclusion./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div




Mickelsson's Ghosts


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Hoping to pull his life back together, a distraught philosophy professor rents an old Pennsylvania farm house and is haunted by ghosts reiterating an old murder




New York Magazine


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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.




New York Magazine


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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.




Understanding John Gardner


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Introduces readers to the imagination of a popular & prolific American writer.




Beacham's Popular Fiction in America


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Updates V.1 & V.2 ; Fiction-20th Century Literature.




A World of Order and Light


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Morris provides an analysis of John Gardner's oeuvre that is in keeping with Gardner's acknowledged devotion to the Aristotelian view of art. He sorts through the complexity of allusions to Blake, Melville, and Poe in "The King's Indian" and describes the ongoing battle of the 'moral' philosophers Collingwood and Whitehead with the 'naysayers' Nietzsche and Sartre in "The Resurrection", "Grendel", and "Mickelsson 's Ghosts". Morris's study does not attempt to defend Gardner's use of what he called the "college technique" of fiction writing, but he does show how Gardner creates resonance by layering his fictions with such allusions, developing an art form that expresses "a moral aesthetic that [Gardner] thought viable, proven, and trustworthy."




The Art of John Gardner


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