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William is a dedicated underachiever, an antihero for the 90s who lives by principles such as: rather than saying "yes, yes" to life, the underachiever will say "no thank you", if pressed he will turn belligerent.
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Born in 1968 to impeccably progressive professionals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the identical twins William and Clive are chalk and cheese, nay, Cain and Abel. Despite an educational assessment at the age of three which ranks them both in the upper percentiles, Clive garners all the laurels, while William grows sickly, spotty and socially retarded. Clive gets the gorgeous girl next door and goes to Harvard. William dates drunks and con-artists while taking five years to graduate from a repulsive New York university whose name begins with "R". Clive enters Stanford Law, William gains admission to an exceptionally ridiculous communal cult.
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The diary is, of course, William's, triumphing over infantile amnesia to bring us his miserable memories straight from the womb. These are illuminated with Freudian reflections suitable to a Cambridge childhood in which psychotherapy is mandatory, but nothing helps him. William wants to be a loser and he's smart enough to know it. Indeed, he identifies his failure as his deliberate attempt to become the victim his parents' liberal politics idealised. A Genealogy of Morals for Generation X, An Underachiever's Diary is less about sibling conflict than that between '60s parents and their disillusioned offspring, still at odds as the grandchildren grow up to denounce us all.--Mandy Merck
Benjamin Anastas is a winner of the Frederick Exley Fiction Prize from GQ, as well as Story magazine's College Fiction Competition. After graduating from the Iowa Writers' Workshop he was awarded the Paul Engle Fellowship for distinguished work. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0330372661
- ISBN 13 9780330372664
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Picador Edition. I am proud to be a disappointment to almost everybody. Lend me money, and I will never pay you back. Fall in love with me, and I will fail to acknowledge you. Save your compassion for someone who really needs it. I am well engaged, trying to be my own worst enemy. I would call this my manifesto, or autobiography, but that would mean I have an ideal audience in mind. Call it a diary. With his debut novel, An Underachiever's Diary, Benjamin Anastas has written a hymn to the imperfect; in the character of William, he has created a definitive antihero for the 90s. Small repair to tiny tear on D/J on back cover. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Seller Inventory # 006787
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