Too good to be true
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Benjamin Anastas
Publisher: New Harvest
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780547913995
Subjects: American Novelists; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; Biography; Fatherhood
Description: 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.

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.