[Used Book] Ticknor - Sheila Heti [Condition: B]

Author: Sheila Heti

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 9780374277543

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"A small masterpiece" ("National Post")--An utterly original first novel from a rising international starOn a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. Reviewing a life of petty humiliations, and his friend's brilliant career, Ticknor sets out for the 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 in resentment. It recalls such modern masterpieces of obsession as Thomas Bernhard's "The Loser" and Nicholson Baker's "The Mezzanine" and announces the arrival of a charming and original novelist, one whose stories have already earned her a passionate international following. "A perceptive act of ventriloquism, ["Ticknor]" rewards thought and rereading, and offers a finely cadenced voice, intelligence and . . . moody beauty. " --Catherine Bush, "The Globe and Mail""Confoundedly strange [and] fascinating. " --Nicholas Dinka, "Quill & Quire"