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• Title:Running with scissors : a memoir / Augusten Burroughs.
  
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• Author/Creator:Burroughs, Augusten.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Picador, 2003, ©2002.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS3552.U745 Z477 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Burroughs, Augusten--Childhood and youth.
  Burroughs, Augusten--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Amherst.
  Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
  Amherst (Mass.)--Social life and customs.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies.
  Autobiographies.
  
• Edition:1st Picador ed.
  
• Description:315 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Credits:Produced by Paul Ruben.
  
• Cast:Read by the author.
  
• Summary:This 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, the author 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. It 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.
  
• ISBN:031242227X (pbk.)
  9780312422271 (pbk.)
  0312283709
  9780312283704
  0312425414
  9780312425418
  0312938853
  9780312938857