Description
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.
Author: Sheila Heti
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/20/2007
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780312426637
ISBN10: 0312426631
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Canada | 21st Century
About the Author
Sheila Heti is the author of The Middle Stories, which was published by McSweeney's and has been translated into German, French, Spanish, and Dutch. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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