A wolf at the table
a memoir of my father
About this book
PREQUEL TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER RUNNING WITH SCISSORSFrom the author: 'My father doesn't feature much in Running with Scissors. And one of the reasons for this is because he didn't feature much in my life. But there's another reason, too: Our relationship was so complicated, so dark, so confusing and so big, that to tell the story would require a book. So finally, upon the death of my father in 2005, I decided to tell the story I have been most afraid yet most compelled to tell. 'This prequel to international hit Running With Scissors tells the story of Augusten's relationship with his tormented father: a man who sent his wife mad and saw his other son run away from home, prior to Augusten going into foster care. Harrowing, insightful and amusing by turns.
Subjects
- american novelists
- authors, biography
- biography
- biography & autobiography
- burroughs, augusten, 1965-
- family
- fathers and sons
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nonfiction
- nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2009-04-19