Authors: Augusten Burroughs
ISBN-13: 9781615544851, ISBN-10: 1615544852
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: April 2008
Edition: Bargain
When Augusten Burroughs released 2002's Running with Scissors -- his memoir about growing up in the mother of all dysfunctional families -- readers didn't know whether to drop their jaws in horror or hold their stomachs from laughing. Whatever reactions he gets from readers, Burroughs's gift for dishing on all things stranger than fiction has made him a bestselling author.
The #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry returns with a most unexpected and powerful memoir.
Burroughs retains his capacity to move the reader: There is gorgeous writing on every page…[he] is to be commended for addressing this painful material head-on and with such sobriety…