The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (Supernatural Minnesota) - Softcover

Disch, Thomas M.; Crowley, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816672083 ISBN 13: 9780816672080

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Businessman presents the sinister tale of Bob Glandier, a morally repulsive Twin Cities executive who murders his estranged wife and attempts to go back to business as usual, until she returns sets about arranging his divine retribution. With help from her dead mother and the ghost of poet John Berryman-thoroughly bored of suburban séances and all too eager to lend a hand-Giselle undertakes the elaborate, righteous, and wickedly amusing haunting of her husband. There is justice in the afterlife after all-at least in Minnesota.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008) was a best-selling and prolific American science fiction writer and poet. He won several awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 1999.
John Crowley is the author of numerous books, including Little, Big, which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

Review:

"Each of the sixty short chapters of The Businessman is a tour de force." —Times Literary Supplement

"The Businessman is an entertaining nightmare out of Thomas Berger and Stephen King." —Time

"Equal measures of terror and whimsy, spookery and spoof . . . Disch puts his storytelling skills squarely at the service of a highly charged moral vision, without ever reneging on his promise to dazzle and entertain us." —Newsweek

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0816672083
• ISBN 13: 9780816672080
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336