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Ticknor

by (author) Sheila Heti

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Mar 2005
Category
Literary, Biographical
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780887841910
    Publish Date
    Mar 2005
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770890893
    Publish Date
    Mar 2005
    List Price
    $16.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770898554
    Publish Date
    Aug 2014
    List Price
    $14.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770898561
    Publish Date
    Aug 2014
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Ticknor is the first novel by Sheila Heti, the author of the acclaimed story collection The Middle Stories and, with Misha Glouberman, the essay collection The Chairs are Where the People Go.

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 thoughts about his and Prescott's dissimilar fates lead him through a litany of rationalizations and recriminations, a psychological maze that is paranoid and harrowing as well as ludicrous and absurd.

In George Ticknor, Sheila Heti has created a memorable new hero of Prufrockian dimension. Ticknor is an exquisite singularity.

About the author

Sheila Heti is the acclaimed author of the novel How Should a Person Be?, the story collection The Middle Stories, which was published in Germany, France, The Netherlands, the United States, and Spain, and the novel Ticknor, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Her writing has appeared in various literary anthologies and in several US and Canadian publications, including New York Times Magazine, Esquire, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and Brick. Heti is also the creator of the popular Toronto and New York-based lecture series, Trampoline Hall. She studied playwriting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, and philosophy and art history at the University of Toronto. Sheila Heti lives in Toronto.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, Trillium Book Award

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