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    Running With Scissors

    Augusten Burroughs

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    In this unforgettable, and by turns hilarious and harrowing memoir, Augusten Burroughs recounts the bizarre events of his childhood. After his parents' divorce, his mother, a delusional poet, left him in the care of her psychiatrist, a man who might have benefited from a little therapy himself.

    Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian mansion with the doctor's bizarre family and a few patients. In the psychiatrist's house, there are no rules, only chaos. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, Valium was eaten like Pez and, if things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock-therapy machine under the stairs...

    RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is a true story, compelling and maniacally funny. Above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

    More books by Augusten Burroughs
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    Augusten Burroughs

    Augusten Burroughs

    Augusten Burroughs was born in 1965. He didn't complete any formal education after the third grade. He's held jobs as an advertising copywriter, dog trainer and a candy-store clerk (fired for stealing) and failed as a male model. He is the author of The New York Times bestselling Running with Scissors, Dry, Magical Thinking and Sellevision. He lives in New York City and Massachusetts.

    Previous Books:

    A Wolf at the Table (Pan Macmillian, 2008);|Running With Scissors;|Dry;|Possible Side Effects;|Magical Thinking;|Sellevision

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