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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Paperback)
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Short Description for Running with ScissorsThis 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. Suddenly at the age of 12, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor.
Full description- Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS
- Published: 12 February 2004
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
- ISBN 13: 9781843541516 ISBN 10: 1843541513
- Sales rank: 23,164
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Full description for Running with Scissors
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.
