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Running with scissors : a memoir / Augusten Burroughs.

LIBRA - Special PS3552.U745 Z477 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Burroughs, Augusten.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Burroughs, Augusten--Childhood and youth.
Burroughs, Augusten.
Burroughs, Augusten--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Amherst.
Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
Novelists, American.
Massachusetts--Amherst.
Amherst (Mass.)--Social life and customs.
Amherst (Mass.).
Amherst (Mass.)--Intellectual life.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
315 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Picador, [2002]
Summary:
The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.
ISBN:
031242227X
9780312422271
OCLC:
59168073

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