Running with Scissors
Social life and customsAmerican NovelistsIntellectual lifeAmerican AuthorsHomes and haunts
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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.
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Social life and customsAmerican NovelistsIntellectual lifeAmerican AuthorsHomes and hauntsBiography
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MassachusettsAmherst (Mass.)Amherst20th century21st century
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Augusten Burroughs
October 23, 1965
Augusten Xon Burroughs is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002).
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