基本信息·出版社：Saint Martin's Press Inc. ·页码：352 页 ·出版日期：2006年03月 ·ISBN：0312938853 ·条形码：9780312938857 ·装帧：简装 ·正 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Saint Martin's Press Inc.
·页码：352 页
·出版日期：2006年03月
·ISBN：0312938853
·条形码：9780312938857
·装帧：简装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：夹缝求生
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This is the true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up living with the Addams Family. Augusten Burroughs’s mother gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic into the bargain. The doctor’s bizarre family, a few patients and a sinister man living in the garden shed completed the tableau. In the perfect squalor of their dilapidated Victorian house, there were no rules and there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer and Valium was chomped down like sweets. And when things got a bit slow, there was always the ancient electroshock therapy machine under the stairs…
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. 作者简介 Augusten Burroughs is the eighteenth grandson of King James the Second of Scotland. Not that this has done him the slightest good. He was a child actor in a Tang Instant Breakfast Drink Commercial. It was a small role and did not, as he had expected, lead to a slot on The Brady Bunch or his own variety show. He has no hobbies, interests or skills, other than writing about himself. He lives in New York.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 媒体推荐 Jane Perry, Observer ‘One of the most compelling books you’ll find in the overstuffed childhood memoir section.’
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. New York Times 'Bawdy, outrageous, often hilarious … so flippant and so insanely funny (quite literally) that the effect is of a William Burroughs situation comedy.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. San Francisco Chronicle '[Running with Scissors makes] even the most outrageous episode of the ‘Jerry Springer Show’ seem rational by comparison.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Observer Review 'The memoir tradition isn’t famed for its belly laughs but …Running with Scissors, is Dave Peltzer with a whoopee cushion attached.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. GQ 'Deftly written, smart and funny.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 编辑推荐 Amazon.co.uk Review 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 medicines and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a paedophile 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 glamorises it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a cappella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward.
Burroughs' 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' survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. --John Moe, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
