Ghost In Theory

by Bill Bunn

Paul Shreeve is an English professor who gets mistaken for a ghost by his neighbors. Though a man of strict rationality and analysis, he cannot shake his ghostly identity, nor will his neighbors allow him to forget. The ghost moves into his thoughts, his work, and his family and begins to chew at his very existence. His head, which drove his entire life, is confounded by something he can't quite touch. His ghosted self drives him to the fringes of rationality and beyond as he looks for something, anything, to help drive it away.
Full of larger-than-life departmental intrigues and wacky adventures, Ghost In Theory is an unfortunately all-too-accurate look into the daily life of an academic. What is real? What is imagined? What is metaphor? Protagonist and reader alike can only guess, as Shreeve's mental deterioration reveals tragedies both immediate and historical. A must-read for anyone who has ever attended a faculty meeting.

284 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2022

About the author

Bill Bunn is the author of four, soon to be five, books, several essays and articles.

His next Young adult novel, Out on the Drink, will be out this year (2018). He’s published two other young adult novels: Kill Shot, 2015, and Duck Boy, 2012. His published essays were collected and published as Hymns of Home, 2013. In 2003, Moon Canoe, a children’s picture book was published. Moon Canoe translated into French and released as Canoë Lune (2005).

He is currently writing two pages a day to generate the rough draft of his next novel.