Ticknor - Rilegato

Heti, Sheila

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0374277540 ISBN 13: 9780374277543

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Riassunto

“A small masterpiece” (National Post)—An utterly original first novel from a rising international star
On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. Reviewing a life of petty humiliations, and his friend’s brilliant career, Ticknor sets out for the 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 in resentment. It recalls such modern masterpieces of obsession as Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser and Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine and announces the arrival of a charming and original novelist, one whose stories have already earned her a passionate international following.


“A perceptive act of ventriloquism, [Ticknor] rewards thought and rereading, and offers a finely cadenced voice, intelligence and . . . moody beauty.” —Catherine Bush, The Globe and Mail
“Confoundedly strange [and] fascinating.” —Nicholas Dinka, Quill & Quire

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sheila Heti is the author of The Middle Stories and a founder of the Trampoline Hall lecture series. Her full-length musical, All Our Happy Days Are Stupid, will tour Canada in 2006. She lives in Montreal.

Product Description:

Book by Heti Sheila

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374277540
• ISBN 13: 9780374277543
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 119