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Running with scissors [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A memoir by Burroughs, Augusten;Sony Electronic Publishing Company is a humor available to read on EtoBox.

What is Running with scissors [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A memoir about?

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.

Who reads Running with scissors [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A memoir?

Author

Burroughs, Augusten;Sony Electronic Publishing Company

Publisher

St. Martin's Press; Picador

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429902526

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Political Science, Memoir

Rating

3.7 / 5 (296,895 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14