Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Running with Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

288 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir funny reflective fast-paced

Description

Now including an excerpt from Lust & Wonder, a new memoir coming in March 2016. 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 ...

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Moods

dark 77%
funny 58%
emotional 48%
reflective 44%
sad 37%
challenging 20%
tense 12%
adventurous 11%
hopeful 6%
lighthearted 5%
inspiring 4%
informative 3%
mysterious 2%

Pace

fast 50%
medium 44%
slow 5%

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