Too good to be true a memoir
Recounts the author's efforts to rebuild in the face of a failing literary career and his wife's abandonment for another man, describing how his love for his young son inspired the confrontation of his own painful childhood memories.
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New York :
New Harvest,
2012.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Anastas, Benjamin. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Too good to be true : |b a memoir / |c Benjamin Anastas. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b New Harvest, |c 2012. | ||
| 300 | |a 177 p. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 520 | |a Recounts the author's efforts to rebuild in the face of a failing literary career and his wife's abandonment for another man, describing how his love for his young son inspired the confrontation of his own painful childhood memories. | ||
| 520 | |a When he was three, Anastas found himself in his mother's fringe-therapy group in Massachusetts, a sign around his neck: Too Good to Be True. The phrase haunted him through his life. This is his deeply moving memoir of fathers and sons, crushing debt and infidelity-- and the first, cautious steps taken toward piecing a life back together. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a At the church door -- Going broke -- The real life of an author -- Coinstar -- Divorce counseling -- A disturbance of memory at the Brooklyn Flea -- Too good to be true -- One beehive in Nicaragua -- At the wheel of the haunted sedan -- Not this guy -- Unpaid bills -- Old friends -- The tower where I work | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Novelists, American |y 20th century |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fatherhood. | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Memoirs. | |
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