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An Underachiever's Diary

First UK edition of Benjamin Anastas's An Underachiever's Diary

Benjamin Anastas
First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 147, [5 (blank)]. Black cloth boards lettered in silver to spine; grey endpapers. Cream white dustjacket, printed in black.
Light soiling to front dustjacket panel, else Fine.
Author's debut novel. "I am proud to be a disappointment to almost everybody." A very funny fictional autobiography in the form of a diary kept by the less accomplished of a proud progressive couple's deeply divergent twin sons. Anastas's second novel, The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance (2001), was a New York Times Notable Book, while numerous bookstores refused to stock his bleak 2012 autobiography, Too Good to Be True, which The New Yorker called a "failure memoir". "I would be proud of myself if I ever underachieved so brilliantly." –Ann Beattie
edition
first UK
format
hardback
publisher
Picador
published in
London
publication year
1998
ISBN
0330372661
pagination
147 pages
width × height
​14 × ​20.5 cm
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
fine
GBP£ ​16
EUR€ ​19.10
USD$ ​21.40
ref.UU2 YC3