Running with Scissors
A Memoir
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Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9368573M
- Internet Archiverunningwithscis00burr
- Internet Archiverunningwithsciss00augu
- ISBN-139780312422271
- ISBN-10031242227X
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- Goodreads242006
- LibraryThing2129
- Better World Books9780312422271
Classifications
- LCCPS3552.U745 Z477
Description
"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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