Mickelsson's Ghosts
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Mickelsson's Ghosts is John Gardner's final novel of 1982. It follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and going completely mad. During his descent to madness he somehow scrounges enough money together to buy a dilapidated farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania. During his more and more frequent absences from reality, the self-destructive Mickelsson has several highly regrettable affairs and becomes involved with a sectarian religious group which may or may not be entirely imagined.
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