Record Number |
842125 |
ISBN |
9780857893529 |
Author |
Burroughs, Augusten author. |
Title |
Running with scissors : a memoir [electronic resource] / Augusten Burroughs. |
Publisher/Date |
Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2007. |
Pagination etc. |
1 online resource. |
Contents note |
Downloadable eBook. |
First published in Australia and New Zealand in 2003 by Hodder Australia. |
Summary Note |
Recounts the bizarre events of the author's childhood. After his parents' divorce, his mother, a delusional poet, left him in the care of her psychiatrist, a man who might have benefitted from a little therapy himself. Suddenly, at 12, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian mansion with a bizarre family. |
Subject - Name |
Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth |
Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst |
Subject |
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography |
Amherst (Mass.) -- Social life and customs |
Electronic books. |
Internet Site |
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