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Amazon.com Review There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors , that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. "I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours." There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamoriz

Who reads Running with Scissors : a Memoir?

Author

Burroughs, Augusten

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312283704

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.7 / 5 (1,311 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14