Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Burroughs, Augusten.

Title Running with scissors : a memoir / Augusten Burroughs.

Publication Info. New York : Picador, 2006.
©2002

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  B BURROUGHS    Check Shelf
Edition Second Picador edition.
Description 315 pages ; 21 cm
Summary 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 unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
Subject Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth.
Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Amherst (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 0312425414 paperback
9780312425418 paperback
-->
Add a Review