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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Audiobook) [Repost]

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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Audiobook) [Repost]

Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Audiobook) by Augusten Burroughs
Unabridged edition 2003 | 7 hours and 37 minutes | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: B00008UVAM | FLAC, MP3; 80 kbps | 588 MB
Genre: Biographies, History | Read by: Augusten Burroughs | Language: English

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of being 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 12, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house 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 went dull, there was always the vintage electroshock-therapy machine under the stairs…

Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it is a truly amazing chronicle of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.