Bibliograph

Running with scissors, a memoir, Augusten Burroughs

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Running with scissors, a memoir, Augusten Burroughs

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Running with scissors

Responsibility statement

Augusten Burroughs

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

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

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