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Title: Running With Scissors
Author: BURROUGHS AUGUSTEN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 12/02/2004
Imprint: ATLANTIC BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
This is the story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of grandeur) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic into the bargain. Suddenly at the age of 12, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor. The doctor’s bizarre family, a few patients and a paedophile living in the garden shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules or school. The Christmas tree stayed up until Summer and valium was chomped down like sweets. When things got a bit slow, there was always the ancient electroshock therapy machine under the stairs.
ISBN: 9781843541516
Weight: 110g
Dimension: 200mm X 130mm
Pages: 400