Running with Scissors

Title: Running with Scissors Author: Augusten Burroughs ISBN: 9780312422271 Publisher: Picador Published: 2003 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: First Edition Number of Pages: 336 Section: Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures Publisher Description: The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!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 Val