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.
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"



Book Information
ISBN 9780312426637
Author Sheila Heti
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Picador USA
Publisher Picador USA