Running with scissors
a memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
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"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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Social life and customs, American Novelists, Intellectual life, American Authors, Homes and haunts, Biography, Childhood and youth, Amherst (Mass.), Homes, Manners and customs, Authors, biography, Massachusetts, social life and customs, Burroughs, augusten, 1965-, Legal figures, Law enforcers, & criminals, Family memoirs - biography, Us & canadian literary biography, Patient narrativesPeople
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Massachusetts, Amherst (Mass.), AmherstTimes
20th century, 21st centuryShowing 6 featured editions. View all 17 editions?
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Running with scissors: a memoir
2002, St. Martin's Press, Picador
in English
- 1st ed.
0312283709 9780312283704
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Yi dao wei jian de tong nian
2006, Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese
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9573259281 9789573259282
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Na zhe jian dao ben pao
2005, Jilin wen shi chu ban she
in Chinese
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7807022884 9787807022886
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