Running with scissors
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Augusten Burroughs.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; Picador
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth.; Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Amherst (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.