Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008938994/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 24 of
24
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "This 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, the author 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. It 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.".
- catalog contributor b12553276.
- catalog coverage "Amherst (Mass.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog coverage "Amherst (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "This 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, the author 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. It 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.".
- catalog extent "304 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312283709 (hc)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "Amherst (Mass.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Amherst (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "813/.6 21".
- catalog subject "Burroughs, Augusten Childhood and youth.".
- catalog subject "Burroughs, Augusten Homes and haunts Massachusetts Amherst.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3552.U745 Z477 2002".
- catalog title "Running with scissors : a memoir / Augusten Burroughs.".
- catalog type "text".