Running with scissors

Description:

"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. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs 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..."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Social life and customs,  American Novelists,  Intellectual life,  American Authors,  Homes and haunts,  Biography,  Childhood and youth,  Amherst (Mass.),  Homes,  Manners and customs,  Authors, biography,  Massachusetts, social life and customs,  Burroughs, augusten, 1965-,  Legal figures,  Law enforcers,  & criminals,  Family memoirs - biography,  Us & canadian literary biography,  Patient narratives

People: Augusten Burroughs

Places: Massachusetts,  Amherst (Mass.),  Amherst

Times: 20th century,  21st century