MICKELSSON'S GHOSTS; Illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Joe Servello. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Small 4to (9 1/2" H x 6 5/8" W), gray cloth with pale blue-green lettering on spine and front cover, Mylar protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a gray-green stone [?] primitive carving of a man's head by Albert Chiang, illustrated by Joel Gardner with B&W frontispiece and several full- page & double-spread non-glossy impressionistic B&W photos, publisher's protective gray stain on top of pages, photographic endpapers, viii + 590 deckled pages + [2] A Note on the Type. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #2676
ISBN: 0394418508
EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, clean.
John Gardner (1933 – 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view. A tour de force!
Gardner's best-known novels include The Sunlight Dialogues, about a disaffected policeman asked to engage a madman fluent in classical mythology; Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf legend from the monster's point of view, with an existential subtext; and October Light, about an embittered brother and sister living and feuding with each other in rural Vermont (the novel includes an invented "trashy novel" the woman reads). This last book won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976.
Gardner was killed in a motorcycle accident on September 14, 1982--Wikipedia abridged.
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