by Augusten Burroughs · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312422271
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«Running with Scissors: A Memoir» is a memoir by Augusten Burroughs, published by Picador in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Augusten Burroughs recounts his real childhood: his mother, a poet with delusions of grandeur, hands him over to her psychiatrist. At twelve, he ends up in a crumbling Victorian house with the doctor's family and a disturbing character. With no rules, with drugs and an electroshock machine, he survives an extraordinary childhood between humour and rawness.
It was number one on The New York Times list and was adapted into a film. The work was originally published in 2002; this edition is from 2003.
For readers of memoirs and non-fiction who appreciate humour and mental health themes.
Augusten Xon Burroughs is an American writer best known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002).
