{"product_id":"ticknor-a-novel-9780374277543","title":"Ticknor: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 friends brilliant career  Ticknor sets out for the dinner partya party at which hed 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 Bernhards The Loser and Nicholson Bakers 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 \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923772637237,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374277540","price":103.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374277543.jpg?v=1794114033","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ticknor-a-novel-9780374277543","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}