Running with scissors : a memoir
Burroughs, Augusten2003
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This is the story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of grandeur) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic. Suddenly at the age of 12, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor.
Main title:
Running with scissors : a memoir / Augusten Burroughs.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Atlantic, 2003.
Collation:
304 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: St. Martin's, 2002.
ISBN:
9781843541509 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6A920BUR813.54
Language:
English
BRN:
102160