Paperback, 320 pages
English language
Published by Picador.
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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.
Subjects
- Childhood Memoir
- Literary
- Biography/Autobiography
- American Essays
- Biography & Autobiography
- Biography / Autobiography
- General
- Childhood and youth
- Burroughs, Augusten
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- American novelists
- Novelists, American
- 20th century
- Biography