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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
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Running with Scissors, June 2003
Paperback
Running with Scissors, July 2002
Hardcover

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
By: Augusten Burroughs

The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy?s survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

Picador
June 2003
320 pages
ISBN: 031242227X
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Biography

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 unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy’s survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

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