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Also by Augusten Burroughs:

This Is How, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Prisoner's Wife, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
A Wolf at the Table, May 2008
Hardcover / e-Book
Running with Scissors, August 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Possible Side Effects, May 2006
Hardcover
Magical Thinking, October 2005
Hardcover
Dry, April 2004
Paperback
Dry, June 2003
Hardcover
Running with Scissors, June 2003
Paperback
Sellevision, June 2003
Trade Size
Running with Scissors, July 2002
Hardcover

Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs

Running with Scissors 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.

St. Martin's Press
July 2002
288 pages
ISBN: 0312283709
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir

Running with Scissors 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, Augusten Burroughs 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....

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