Running with Scissors

Burroughs, Augusten

ISBN 10: 0733620523 / ISBN 13: 9780733620522

Editore: Hodder Headline, 2006

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Size: Octavo (standard book size). 320 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Family & Relationships. ISBN: 0733620523. ISBN/EAN: 9780733620522. Dewey Code: 813.6. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB16979: 110 For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

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• Titolo: Running with Scissors
• Editore: Hodder Headline
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0733620523
• ISBN 13: 9780733620522
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Edizione: Later Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Biography & Autobiography

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The true story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment.

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.