Ticknor

Sheila Heti

earliest edition we have, 2005 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 119 pages

"George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his own failure with the success of his boyhood friend, the famous American historian William Prescott. Ticknor's life has been reduced to a series of awkward meetings, failed dinner parties, and other misfortunes he is loath to own up to. Situated in the complicated and contradictory moments that make friendships both tenuous and difficult to relinquish, Ticknor's fixated thoug...

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Ticknor paperback · 2007 · Picador · 128 pages · 9780312426637
Ticknor edition · 2006 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 119 pages · 9780374277543
Ticknor edition · 2006 · Phebus · 133 pages
Ticknor edition · 2005 · House of Anansi Press · 109 pages

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