Ticknor

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A B OLDTYPE NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, who has surprisingly become 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 reluctantly sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party. As he stumbles toward this forbidding night, Ticknor, now a failure, thinks back on his acquaintance with Prescott, back to the small but perhaps monumental event that set the scales of their life permanently in Prescott's favor. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendship between the great historian William H. Prescott and his esteemed biographer, Ticknor is a fantastical and often hilarious study of envy—the biting chronicle of a one-sided friendship.
"Sheila Heti's bleakly hilarious Ticknor is a brilliant anti-history .It's a tour de force of ventriloquism reminiscent of The Remains... Tovább

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A B OLDTYPE NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, who has surprisingly become 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 reluctantly sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party. As he stumbles toward this forbidding night, Ticknor, now a failure, thinks back on his acquaintance with Prescott, back to the small but perhaps monumental event that set the scales of their life permanently in Prescott's favor. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendship between the great historian William H. Prescott and his esteemed biographer, Ticknor is a fantastical and often hilarious study of envy—the biting chronicle of a one-sided friendship.
"Sheila Heti's bleakly hilarious Ticknor is a brilliant anti-history .It's a tour de force of ventriloquism reminiscent of The Remains of the Day."" —Slate

"Heti paints a full and rich character: curmudgeonly, downright pathetic, but surprisingly fascinating." —Bookforum
"A tiny postmodern diamond." —San Francisco Chronicle
"A particularly satisfying puzzle: Heti's prose is the journey, and the destination." —The Village Voice
"Sheila Heti is a wi'iter like no other, triumphantly
classical and discordant at the same time____{She} obeys no law
but that of her own pleasure in literature." —Le Figaro
COVER DESIGN BY DEAN NICASTRO • COVER ILLDSTRATION BY M.K.PERKER Vissza