Running with Scissors
A Memoir
About this book
"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..."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- american authors
- american novelists
- amherst (mass.)
- authors, biography
- biography
- burroughs, augusten, 1965-
- childhood and youth
- & criminals
- family memoirs - biography
- homes
- homes and haunts
- intellectual life
- law enforcers
- legal figures
- manners and customs
- massachusetts, social life and customs
- patient narratives
- social life and customs
- us & canadian literary biography