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Hardcover Running with Scissors: A Memoir Book

ISBN: 0312283709

ISBN13: 9780312283704

Running with Scissors

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Book Overview

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.... Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances. Running with Scissors Acknowledgments Gratitude doesn't begin to describe it: Jennifer Enderlin, Christopher Schelling, John Murphy, Gregg Sullivan, Kim Cardascia, Michael Storrings, and everyone at St. Martin's Press. Thank you: Lawrence David, Suzanne Finnamore, Robert Rodi, Bret Easton Ellis, Jon Pepoon, Lee Lodes, Jeff Soares, Kevin Weidenbacher, Lynda Pearson, Lona Walburn, Lori Greenburg, John DePretis, and Sheila Cobb. I would also like to express my appreciation to my mother and father for, no matter how inadvertently, giving me such a memorable childhood. Additionally, I would like to thank the real-life members of the family portrayed in this book for taking me into their home and accepting me as one of their own. I recognize that their memories of the events described in this book are different than my own. They are each fine, decent, and hard-working people. The book was not intended to hurt the family. Both my publisher and I regret any unintentional harm resulting from the publishing and marketing of Running with Scissors. Most of all, I would like to thank my brother for demonstrating, by example, the importance of being wholly unique.

Customer Reviews

37 customer ratings | 9 reviews

Rated 1 stars
Couldn’t get through it.

Read a little less than half the book and then had to put it down because reading it was like trudging through thick mud. It didn’t hold my interest and it was a chore to read.

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Rated 5 stars
The good stuff.

Wow.

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Rated 4 stars
Running With Scissors

Unlike other biographies I've read, the author was actually able to keep it a lite read. Although his life was full of tragedy he was able to make light of it, making you feel as though you can almost relate to the way he grew up. I liked that it was not all sad.

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Rated 4 stars
Eh?

I think dude's got a great writing ability, but he seems to be very conscious of it. There's a type of "high and mighty" attitude that I feel through the book. I absolutely don't believe everything I read in it. A good book, overall, though.

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Rated 5 stars
One of the BEST

Callie Sawyer, fan of Non Fiction, Running With Scissors is a remarkable book within the memoir/biography/abuse genre. The book is all telling and yet there is a rare look at the abuse suffered with dignity and at times humor. I have read many such books. Running with Scissors compares easily to that of 'Nightmares Echo' (agree with prior reviewer),also due to the details of the book I compare it to Dry,The Privilege Of Youth,...

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