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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Augusten Burroughs; Augusten Burroughs; Augusten Burroughs |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN: | 0312283709 9780312283704 031242227X 9780312422271 0312355645 9780312355647 |
| OCLC Number: | 48515847 |
| Description: | 304 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Augusten Burroughs. |
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Abstract:
This 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. Suddenly, at age twelve, the author found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs. It is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny, but above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
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- Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth.
- Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst.
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Amherst (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
- Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life.
- Movie novels.
- Burroughs, Augusten -- (1965-....) -- Enfance et jeunesse.
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