The Businessman

FE/FP. As nwe hardcover with dust jacket wrappedin protective Brodart. First of an informal trilogy of satirical horror novels, all set in Minneapolis. In The Businessman, middle-aged middle-management drone Bob Glandier is haunted by absurd manifestations of the ghost of his murdered wife, her mother, and the poet John Berryman, all of who have met in the afterlife . a slapstick spoof of modern horror fiction and the trend toward using the most banal aspects of ordinary life as springboards for supernatural experience. 292 pages