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Running With Scissors: A Memoir

By Burroughs , Augusten;Sony Electronic Publishing Company

Book information

Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN
0312283709, 031242227X, 9780312938857, 9781429902526, 1429902523
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
420 kB (430108 bytes)
Edition
1st ed., Sony eBook ed
Pages
304 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American -- 20th century -- Biography;Amherst (MasAmerican--20th century;Manners and customs;NovelisAmerican;Homes;Intellectual life;Biography;ElectroAugusten -- Childhood and youth;BurroughsAugusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- AAugusten;NovelistsNovelists

Description

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.

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