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Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs · 2003
3.5 of 5 · 17 ratings
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Book details
- Author
- Augusten Burroughs
- Publisher
- Picador
- Published
- June 2003
- Pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9780312422271
- ISBN-10
- 031242227X
- Categories
- Biography and memoir
About this book
"Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules; there was no school.
The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock-therapy machine under the stairs..."--BOOK JACKET.
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