RUNNING WITH SCISSORS (2002) AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS PB Gay Childhood Campy Memoir Autobiography Amherst

This is a unread vintage and out of print copy of Running with Scissors: A Memoir written by AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS in 2002 and published and distributed by PICADOR of ST. MARTINS PRESS. 315 pages in length and measures 5.4 x 0.85 x 8.25 inches. Cover edges show some minor shelf wear. Pages are clean; there is no writing, highlighting or margin notes. See photos for condition.

“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.

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."

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