by Augusten Burroughs · Atlantic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843541516
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«Running with Scissors» is the memoir by Augusten Burroughs, published by Atlantic Books in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Augusten Burroughs recalls his childhood and adolescence after being handed over by his mother, a poetess with delusions of grandeur, to the care of his psychiatrist, an eccentric who lives in a ruined Victorian house. With no rules or school, daily Valium and an old electroshock machine at home, he portrays extreme family dysfunction with acerbic humour and rawness.
It is Augusten Burroughs's debut memoir, number one on the New York Times bestseller list and adapted into a film.
For readers of memoirs and non-fiction who enjoy eccentric stories, black humour and portraits of family dysfunction.
Augusten Xon Burroughs is an American writer best known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002).
