running with scissors by augusten burroughs

Edgier, but reminiscent of Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, this is a survival story readers won't forget. “Burroughs tempers the pathos with sharp riotous humor. “Burroughs has memorialized his bizarre childhood showing off a dark wit that often rivals that 0of David Sedaris-while telling a true story that would make even Sedaris cringe.” - New York Magazine “A memoir that is both horrifying and mordantly funny.” - San Francisco Chronicle Augusten Burroughs has produced a memoir that's funny and sharp but also humane, as charming as it is revealing.” - Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century “I was reminded of Roald Dahl's Boy and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. “Burroughs defies the ‘woe is me' stigma of modern memoir with a raucous recounting of his loony teenage years.” - Entertainment Weekly “The anecdotes can be so flippant, and so insanely funny (quite literally), that the effect is that of a William Burroughs situation comedy.” - The New York Times “ Running with Scissors is a cut book celebrates Burroughs' resilient, upbeat spirit, which helps him surmount one of the weirder childhoods on record.” - USA Today I haven't laughed this much since David Sedaris's last book.” - Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy “A hilarious and horrifying memoir.” - Los Angeles Times 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. “Funny and rich with child's eye details of adults who have gone off the rails.” - The New York Times Book Review Running with Scissors is hilarious, freaky-deaky, berserk, controlled, transcendent, touching, affectionate, vengeful, all-embracing.It makes a good run at blowing every other out of the water.” - Carolyn See, The Washington Post “I just finished reading the most amazing book.

Running with scissors by augusten burroughs