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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
Sellevision, June 2003
Trade Size
Running with Scissors, June 2003
Paperback
Running with Scissors, July 2002
Hardcover

MAGICAL THINKING
By: Augusten Burroughs

From the number-one bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burroughs's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention.

St. Martin's Press
October 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0312315945
Hardcover
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Contemporary

It begins with a Tang Instant-Breakfast Drink television commercial:

"Yes, you, Augusten. You were great. We want you." I can now trace my manic adult tendencies to this moment. It was the first time I felt deeply thrilled about something just a fraction of an instant after being completely crushed. I believe those three words "We want you" were enough to cause my brain to rewire itself, and from then on, I would require more than other people....- from Magical Thinking's "Commercial Break"

A contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. A different kind of "roof work." Dating an undertaker who shows up in a minivan. This is the fabric of Augusten Burroughs's life: a collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate, stories that shine a flashlight into both dark and hilarious places. With Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs goes where other memoirists fear to tread.

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