Dry : a memoir / Augusten Burroughs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burroughs, Augusten.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burroughs, Augusten.

Advertising agencies--New York (State)--New York.

Advertising agencies.

Copy writers--United States--Biography.

Copy writers.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

United States.

New York (State)--New York.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 309 p ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Picador edition.

Production:

New York : Picador, 2004, c2003.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2004.

Summary:

With unconventional wit and a wonderfully weird way of looking at things, Augusten Burroughs chronicles his life on the edge after leaving his deeply eccentric foster family. Dry opens in Manhattan, where Augusten has established a life for himself as a high-paid advertising hotshot. But his past haunts him still as he tries to create a grown-up life. Dry is at times howlingly funny, devastatingly moving and, in the end, uplifting. It further establishes Burroughs as one of the most original authors writing today.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.

ISBN:

9780312423797

0312423799

OCLC:

731460243