Running With Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

ISBN 0733618243 (978-073-361824-6)
RRP $19.95 August 2003
Hodder 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.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the psychiatrist, Augusten Burroughs is set to reduce us all to laughter, tears and tranquilizers with the relaunch of Running with Scissors in B format.

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

Other Editions

978-073-361681-5 Hodder Headline Australia Trade Paperback $29.95 January 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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