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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Written by Augusten Burroughs
Narrated by Augusten Burroughs
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Start Listening- Publisher:
- Macmillan Audio
- Released:
- Sep 5, 2006
- ISBN:
- 9781427200563
- Format:
- Audiobook (abridged)
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...
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.
A Macmillan Audio production.
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Start ListeningBook Information
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Written by Augusten Burroughs
Narrated by Augusten Burroughs
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...
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.
A Macmillan Audio production.
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Audio
- Released:
- Sep 5, 2006
- ISBN:
- 9781427200563
- Format:
- Audiobook (abridged)
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It was interesting to read about just how crazy this kid's mother and childhood was. I really couldn't put this book down.
Must read : ;)
https://www.scribd.com/document/470794837/In-Between-I-by-Julia-Jones
Made for a good audio book. I am a sucker for a well told story. I laughed, was horrified - ran a whole range of emotions on this one.