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Abnormal Psychology & Running With Scissorsby Ronald J. Comer, Augusten BurroughsISBN 0716772809 (0-7167-7280-9)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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College Running With Scissorsby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0716774542 (0-7167-7454-2)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Dryby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0312423799 (0-312-42379-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dry: A Memoir'Book summary:Fans of Augusten Burroughs's darkly funny memoir Running with Scissors were left wondering at the end of that book what would become of young Augusten after his squalid and fascinating childhood ended. In Dry, we find that although adult Augusten is doing well professionally, earning a handsome living as an ad writer for a top New York agency, Burroughs's personal life is a disaster. His apartment is a sea of empty Dewar's bottles, he stays out all night boozing, and he dabs cologne on his tongue in an unsuccessful attempt to mask the stench of alcohol on his breath at work. When his employer insists he seek help, Burroughs ships out to Minnesota for detoxification, counseling, and amusingly told anecdotes about the use of stuffed animals in group therapy. But after a month of such treatment, he's back in Manhattan and tenuously sober. And while its one thing to lay off the sauce in rehab, Burroughs learns that it's quite another to resume your former life while avoiding the alcohol that your former life was based around. This quest to remain sober is made dramatically more difficult, and the tale more harrowing, when Burroughs begins an ill-advised romance with a crack addict. Certainly the "recovered alcoholic fighting to stay sober" tale is not new territory for a memoirist. But Burroughs's account transcends clichés: it doesn't adhere to the traditional "temptation narrowly resisted" storyline and it features, in Burroughs himself, a central character that is sympathetic even when he's neither likable nor admirable. But what ultimately makes this memoir such a terrific read is a brilliant and candid sense of humor that manages to stay dry even when recalling events where the author was anything but. --John Moe [via]
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger'sby John Elder Robison, Augusten BurroughsISBN 0307395987 (0-307-39598-7)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's'Book summary:Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habitsan inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)had earned him the label social deviant. No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtures, or his father, who spent evenings pickling himself in sherry. It was no wonder he gravitated to machines, which could, at least, be counted on.
After fleeing his parents and dropping out of high school, his savant-like ability to visualize electronic circuits landed him a gig with KISS, for whom he created their legendary fire-breathing guitars. Later, he drifted into a real job, as an engineer for a major toy company. But the higher Robison rose in the company, the more he had to pretend to be normal and do what he simply couldnt: communicate. It wasnt worth the paycheck.
It was not until he was forty that an insightful therapist told him he had the form of autism called Aspergers syndrome. That understanding transformed the way Robison saw himselfand the world.
Look Me in the Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with Aspergers at a time when the diagnosis simply didnt exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes you inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as defective, who could not avail himself of KISSs endless supply of groupies, and who still has a peculiar aversion to using peoples given names (he calls his wife Unit Two ). He also provides a fascinating reverse angle on the younger brother he left at the mercy of their nutty parentsthe boy who would later change his name to Augusten Burroughs and write the bestselling memoir Running with Scissors.
Ultimately, this is the story of Robisons journey from his world into ours, and his new life as a husband, father, and successful small business ownerrepairing his beloved high-end automobiles. Its a strange, sly, indelible accountsometimes alien, yet always deeply human. [via]More editions of Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's:
Magical Thinkingby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0733619002 (0-7336-1900-2)
Softcover, Hachette Livre Australia
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Magical Thinking - Easelback: True Storiesby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0312425457 (0-312-42545-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Magical Thinking: True Storiesby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0312315953 (0-312-31595-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magical Thinking: True Stories'Book summary:From the number-one bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burroughs's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention.It begins with a Tang Instant-Breakfast Drink television commercial:"Yes, you, Augusten. You were great. We want you." I can now trace my manic adult tendencies to this moment. It was the first time I felt deeply thrilled about something just a fraction of an instant after being completely crushed. I believe those three words "We want you" were enough to cause my brain to rewire itself, and from then on, I would require more than other people....- from Magical Thinking's "Commercial Break"A contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. A different kind of "roof work." Dating an undertaker who shows up in a minivan. This is the fabric of Augusten Burroughs's life: a collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate, stories that shine a flashlight into both dark and hilarious places. With Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs goes where other memoirists fear to tread. [via]
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Possible Side Effectsby Augusten BurroughsISBN 031242681X (0-312-42681-X)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Possible Side Effects'Book summary:[via]From the million-copy bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection yet.This book is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This book is not approved to treat disorders such as eBay addiction or incessant blind dating.In studies, some people reported inappropriate, convulsive laughter, a tingling sensation in the limbs, and sudden gasping. Fewer than 1 percent reported narcolepsy.Doll collectors may experience special sensitivity, as may discourteous drivers, candy-company brand managers, and nicotine-gum users.This book has been shown to be especially helpful to those with parents, grandparents, life partners, and incontinent dogs. People with dry, cracked skin have responded well to this book, as have people with certain heart conditions.Do not operate heavy machinery while reading this book, until you know what effects it may have on you.This text is contraindicated in those suffering from certain psychiatric disorders, including---but not limited to---readers afflicted with anhedonia, which is the inability to experience pleasure.Ask your doctor about Possible Side Effects.More editions of Possible Side Effects:
Psychology + Running With Scissorsby David G. Myers, Augusten BurroughsISBN 0716772795 (0-7167-7279-5)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Psychology: a Concise Introduction + Running With Scissorsby Richard A. Griggs, Augusten BurroughsISBN 0716774550 (0-7167-7455-0)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Running With Scissors: A Memoirby Augusten BurroughsISBN 031242227X (0-312-42227-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running With Scissors: A Memoir'Book summary:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's 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 doctor's office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn't 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 therapist's 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 would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorizes it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a capella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward. Burroughs's perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And it's ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, there's always a sense that Burroughs's survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. --John Moe [via]
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- Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 0312425414 (0-312-42541-4)
Softcover, Picador USA - Running With Scissors: ISBN 0312938853 (0-312-93885-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 0312283709 (0-312-28370-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Running with Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 0312355645 (0-312-35564-5)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - Running with Scissors: ISBN 073361681X (0-7336-1681-X)
Softcover, Hachette Livre Australia - Running with Scissors: ISBN 0733618243 (0-7336-1824-3)
Softcover, Hachette Livre Australia - Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 031242227X (0-312-42227-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 0312425414 (0-312-42541-4)
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Sellevisionby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0312422288 (0-312-42228-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sellevision'Book summary:Light and funny, with a bitter aftertaste, the action of Sellevision takes place behind the scenes (and on the set) of a successful television shopping network, where a feminine role model, Peggy Jean Smythe, the married, Christian mother of three, begins receiving suspicious e-mail from a viewer who insists that Peggy's hairy earlobe is obscuring her presentation of jewelry during the broadcast. When Peggy fails to respond to the e-mail, but silently waxes her lobe, the cruel notes escalate, until Peggy believes herself to be suffering from a hormonal crisis that has given her a mustache, a gruff voice, and the manner of a lumberjack. Meanwhile, one of her cohosts, Max Andrews, has been fired for accidentally exposing himself during a children's special, and learns just how undesirable a commodity a penis-baring ex-Sellevision host can be on the job market. The book is an unusually smooth read for a first novel, with six or seven truly inspired lines. --Regina Marler [via]
A Wolf at the Tableby Augusten BurroughsISBN 0312342020 (0-312-34202-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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