Ticknor

Title: Ticknor
Author: Sheila Heti
ISBN: 9780312426637
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Fiction 1585917

Publisher 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.