Running With Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

ISBN 073361681X (978-073-361681-5)
RRP $29.95 January 2003
Hodder Headline Australia Trade Paperback

At the age of 12, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian mansion with the family and patients of an unorthodox and sometimes frightening doctor. In this house there were no rules, only chaos: Valium was knocked back like Pez, the Christmas tree stayed up until May and a vintage electroshock therapy machine lurked under the stairs. Running with Scissors is the compelling, moving and hysterically funny account of a boy’s survival of a very, very strange childhood.

Beautifully written with a finely tuned sense of style and wit, compulsively entertaining—Publishers Weekly

Other Editions

978-073-361824-6 Hodder Paperback $19.95 August 2003

978-073-362052-2 Headline Paperback $22.95 July 2006

978-073-362169-7 Hachette Australia Paperback $22.95 January 2007

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