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Running with scissors : a memoir Cover Image Book Book

Running with scissors : a memoir

Burroughs, Augusten (Author).

Summary: This 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, the author 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. It is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny, but above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0312938853
  • ISBN: 9780312938857
  • ISBN: 1417684186
  • ISBN: 9781417684182
  • Physical Description: print
    331 p. ; 18 cm.
  • Edition: Mass market pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Picador, c2006.

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General Note:
With an excerpt from Dry by Augusten Burroughs (p.[323]-331).

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Cherokee Regional Library:
      LaFayette-Walker County Library 		F BURROUG ( Send Text)
 31010005357571 ADULT Available
Statesboro Regional Library:
      Bryan County Library, Pembroke 		BIO BURROUGHS, AUGUSTEN ( Send Text)
 31053001665191 ADULT Available
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