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Unfortunately, as the boys hit puberty and William exiles himself to boarding school ("the Boys' Prison"), the book goes awry. The underachiever's later misadventures are no less acutely rendered, but with his foil at more of a distance, William's sorrows and sarcasms lose some of their strength. Despite its brevity, An Underachiever's Diary should not be read in one sitting but savored slowly (or even dipped into in very small doses) for its balanced prose and arch self-deprecation.
"Ben Anastas's underachiever is the most heartbreakingly likeable, brilliantly convincing character of this type since Holden Caulfield."
--Francisco Goldman
"From the first paragraph, Benjamin Anastas has got you. His witty, sorrowful hero speaks in a voice that snares the listener as fully as Salinger's Seymour Glass once did. An Underachiever's Diary--the cleverest literary monologue in a long while--is in fact an extremely precocious debut."
--Thomas Mallon
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