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Running With Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
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Description for Running With Scissors
Paperback. Augusten Burroughs's jaw-dropping memoir, out now in paperback: 'Adrian Mole scripted by Hieronymous Bosch' Fiona Hook, The Times Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260.
The #1 New York Times Bestseller
An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year
Now a Major Motion Picture
This is the true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up living with the Addams Family. Augusten Burroughs's mother gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic into the bargain. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients and a sinister man living in the garden shed completed the tableau. The perfect squalor of their dilapidated Victorian house, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843541516
SKU
V9781843541516
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-2
About Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs is the eighteenth grandson of King James the Second of Scotland. Not that this has done him the slightest good. He has no hobbies, interests or skills, other than writing about himself.He lives in New York.
Reviews for Running With Scissors
'This true story is a match for the strangest... Running with Scissors reads like an extremely well crafted and crazed sitcom, a mix of Jerry Springer and Seinfeld... Funny, moving and extraordinary'
Christina Patterson
Independent
'Twisted, hilarious and relentlessly bizarre... It single-handedly redefines the term "fucked up childhood"'
Sleazenation
'Bawdy, outrageous, often hilarious... so flippant ... Read more
Christina Patterson
Independent
'Twisted, hilarious and relentlessly bizarre... It single-handedly redefines the term "fucked up childhood"'
Sleazenation
'Bawdy, outrageous, often hilarious... so flippant ... Read more