Running with Scissors by Unknown, Augusten Burroughs
There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughss harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors, that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctors office, he writes, And it certainly wouldnt be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours. There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapists eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many w
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Running with Scissors
Unknown, Augusten Burroughs
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There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughss harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors, that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctors office, he writes, And it certainly wouldnt be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours. There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapists eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many w
