![]() ![]() The novel is a mordant and complexly-plotted metaphysical thriller, which follows numerous viewpoints in their characters' interactions, which culminates in a sexual encounter between the ghost Giselle and her murderer Glandier, and the resulting conception of a demonic foetus. ![]() The novel is about Robert Glandier, a Minneapolis businessman who murders his wife, Giselle, and is later haunted by her his mother-in-law, Joy-Ann Anker (whose death frees her daughter Giselle's entombed spirit and allows her to roam the world, and who eventually defers her own ascent through an elaborate afterlife in order to help her beleaguered daughter) and various historical characters-including the ghost of poet John Berryman, whose 1972 suicide has left him in a beleaguered posthumous condition, and Adah Isaacs Menken, the 19th century actress, who conducts Joy-Ann through the afterlife. The Businessman is a contemporary novel, a form that Disch-best known for his science fiction-had not hitherto tried, although all of his subsequent adult novels have shared its milieu. Disch, published by Harper & Row in 1984. The Businessman: A Tale of Terror is a dark fantasy novel by American writer Thomas M. ![]()
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