Light wear to cover corners. Remainder dot on the top edge of the block. Block is also a bit soiled. Text is unmarked and in a tight binding. Jacket is rubbed with creasing at the edges and corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

0312355645

ISBN 13

9780312355647

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition; First Printing.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good-

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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....

Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

About the Authors

Augusten Burroughs is the author of Sellevision. He lives in New York City.

AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS is the author of Sellevision. He lives in New York City.

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