Ticknor

By: Sheila Heti

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Paperback | 20 March 2007

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128 Pages

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20.96 x 13.97 x 1.27

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On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. With a hastily baked pie in his hands, and a lifetime of guilt and insecurity weighing upon his soul, he sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party--a party at which he'd just as soon never arrive. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendship between the great historian William Hickling Prescott and his biographer, Ticknor is a witty, fantastical study of resentment; and a biting history of a one-sided friendship.

Industry Reviews

"The rancorous, interminable friendship between a Great Man and his envious, self-pitying biographer drives this cleverly coiled narrative....As deliciously intimate and clue-riddled as a Poe story." --Publishers Weekly

"Ticknor is one of this year's most enjoyable and formally impressive books." --The New York Sun

"Sheila Heti's touch is confident. She builds a memorable world inside the tiny space of Ticknor's anxious imagination, and we barely miss the air outside." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A pungent and hilarious study of bitterness and promise unfulfilled." --Boldtype

"Heti paints a full and rich character: curmudgeonly, downright pathetic, but surprisingly fascinating." --Bookforum

"A par-ticularly satisfying puzzle: Heti's prose is the journey, and the destination." --The Village Voice

"Heti packs more life and literary pleasure into Ticknor than most authors do in novels three or four times its length." --David Bezmozgis, author of Natasha

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