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Ticknor.(Brief article)(Book review)

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| January 23, 2006 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ticknor Sheila Heti. Farrar Straus & Giroux, $18 (128p) ISBN 0-374-27754-0

The rancorous, interminable friendship between a Great Man and his envious, self-pitying biographer drives this cleverly coiled narrative by Canadian author Heti (The Middle Stories). As Heti notes, she has based this slender, first-person work on American George Ticknor's mid-19th-century biography of historian William Hickling Prescott, but the lonely, querulous voice of her invented George is all her own. The book opens as George steps out on a rainy Boston night to answer a rare, longed for …

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