An Underachiever's Diary

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