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아버지는 알코올 중독자, 어머니는 정신분열증 환자. 어거스텐의 삶은 그런 부모의 이혼으로 큰 전환점을 맞이한다. 남편이 가족을 죄다 살해할 거라 철석같이 믿는 어머니가 그를 정신과 의사인 핀치 박사에게 보내버린 것. 우아하고 품위 있는 의사 집안을 생각한 어거스텐을 맞이한 것은 쓰레기와 바퀴벌레가 넘쳐나는 집, 집안 어딘가를 차지하고 있는 정신병자의 비명 소리, 그리고 정상적이라고는 볼 수 없는 괴상망측한 핀치 가족들뿐이다.
핀치 박사 집에서의 생활은 평탄하지 않다. 어거스틴에게 가장 필요한 관심과 규율은 핀치 박사Continue
11 Reviews
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meganzing said on Jul 3, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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It's not often I hate a book, but this one I did. Boring, self indulgent, unsympathetic, voyeuristic blah blah. I've had to revise my opinion of the author slightly after seeing he has gone on to write more books (god help us) but at least it means he's hopefully got over his ooh-look-at-me-I'm-so-k ... (continue)
goldtop said on Dec 24, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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A spectacularly dysfunctional family and a narcistically self-indulgent therapist foster parent might seem the ingredients for a grim, grinding, depressing descent into social realism.
Mostly this is as funny as the blurb promises. The plotting is smartly episodic if a little bit too telegenic.
huntch said on Jun 10, 2010 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 320 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 031242227X
- ISBN-13: 9780312422271
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: Jun 01, 2003
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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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 for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in pe ... (continue)
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 for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian 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 got 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 chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
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