Running with Scissors(夹缝求生)|报价￥63.40|图书,进口原版,Others 其他,
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基本信息
·出版社：St. Martin's Press
·页码：331 页码
·出版日：2006年
·ISBN：9780312938857
·条码：9780312938857
·版次：2006-09-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 32开
内容简介
Book Description
A #1 "New York Times" bestseller--the true story of a boy whose mother gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist--Burroughs's memoir is now a feature film from TriStar Pictures, scheduled for release in September and starring Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Joseph Fiennes.
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length: (cm)17.6 width:(cm)10.9
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Amazon.com
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--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
From Publishers Weekly
"Bookman gave me attention. We would go for long walks and talk about all sorts of things. Like how awful the nuns were in his Catholic school when he was a kid and how you have to roll your lips over your teeth when you give a blowjob," writes Burroughs (Sellevision) about his affair, at age 13, with the 33-year-old son of his mother''s psychiatrist. That his mother sent him to live with her shrink (who felt that the affair was good therapy for Burroughs) shows that this is not just another 1980s coming-of-age story. The son of a poet with a "wild mental imbalance" and a professor with a "pitch-black dark side," Burroughs is sent to live with Dr. Finch when his parents separate and his mother comes out as a lesbian. While life in the Finch household is often overwhelming (the doctor talks about masturbating to photos of Golda Meir while his wife rages about his adulterous behavior), Burroughs learns "your life [is] your own and no adult should be allowed to shape it for you." There are wonderful moments of paradoxical humor Burroughs, who accepts his homosexuality as a teen, rejects the squeaky-clean pop icon Anita Bryant because she was "tacky and classless" as well as some horrifying moments, as when one of Finch''s daughters has a semi-breakdown and thinks that her cat has come back from the dead. Beautifully written with a finely tuned sense of style and wit the occasional clich‚ ("Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal") stands out anomalously this memoir of a nightmarish youth is both compulsively entertaining and tremendously provocative.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
From Library Journal
This memoir by Burroughs is certainly unique; among other adventures, he recounts how his mother''s psychiatrist took her to a motel for therapy, while at home the kids chopped a hole in the roof to make the kitchen brighter. Not all craziness, though, this account reveals the feelings of sadness and dislocation this unusual upbringing brought upon Burroughs and his friends. His early family life was characterized by his parents'' break-and-destroy fights, and after his parents separated, his mother practically abandoned Burroughs in hopes of achieving fame as a poet. At 12, he went to live with the family (and a few patients) of his mother''s psychiatrist. At the doctor''s home, children did as they wished: they skipped school, ate whatever they wanted, engaged in whatever sexual adventures came along, and trashed the house and everything in it, while the mother watched TV and occasionally dusted. Burroughs has written an entertaining yet horrifying account that isn''t for the squeamish: the scatological content and explicit homosexual episodes may limit its appeal. Recommended for the adventurous seeking an unsettling experience among the grotesque. Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
FromAudioFile
When Augusten Burroughs was 12, his mother handed him over to live with her extravagantly loony psychiatrist, along with the doctor''s own wife and children and a number of extremely addled patients, some of them predatory. In this shambles of a household everything was permitted, including Augusten and his foster sister''s decision to tear out the kitchen ceiling one night and cut a large hole in the roof to let more light in, which no one then knew how to fix, so no one did. Burrough''s account of his deranged adolescence there is clear-eyed and often wildly funny. To hear it not only in his own words, but in his own voice in this fine production is ideal. B.G. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine--Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
FromBooklist
It''s hard to imagine a childhood more disturbing and relentlessly surreal than the one the author describes in this memoir. When his violent, nearly homicidal parents divorce, young Augusten lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his mother, a confessional poet battling a mental illness that manifests itself in consuming self-absorption and psychotic episodes. Deciding she needs more space for personal exploration and art, Augusten''s mother packs her 12-year-old son off to the home of psychiatrist Dr. Finch, a wildly eccentric egomaniac; most of this memoir centers on Augusten''s teenage years spent in this uncontrolled, profoundly bizarre household. Luckily, Burroughs tempers the pathos with sharp, riotous humor in stories that are self-deprecating, raunchy, sexually explicit (14-year-old Augusten becomes lovers with Neil, a Finch family member 20 years his senior), scatological, grotesque, and deeply affecting. Edgier but reminiscent of Dave Eggers''Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius(2000), this is a survival story readers won''t forget.Gillian Engberg
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Haven Kimmel, author ofA Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana
"It''s really fabulous, and what must be one of the rarest stories on the crowded memoir shelves."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Review
"The most amazing book...hilarious, freaky-deaky, berserk, controlled, transcendent, touching, affectionate, vengeful, all-embracing. It makes you happy that there''s such a thing in the world as a string of written words...a golden effervescence of invention and wit that stuns you with its audacity and beauty and powerful love of being alive.Running with Scissors, as a memoir in the current conventional sense, makes a good run at blowing every other contender out of the water." --The Washington Post
"Bawdy, outrageous, often hilarious...the anecdotes inRunning with Scissorscan be so flippant, and so insanely funny (quite literally), that the effect is that of a William Burroughs situation comedy." --The New York Times
"Running With Scissorsis testament to the resilience of the human spirit. That he can stand aside as an impartial observer of it, even write with humor in spite of the tragedy around him, is astounding proof of our emotional survival skills...reads like David Sedaris writing "The Hotel New Hampshire." --The Boston Globe
''Twisted, freakish, unfathomably bizarre...Not only is it one of the funniest "coming of age" memoirs written, it''s also the best of the genre since Paul Monette''s "Becoming a Man."... It''s literally breathtaking, and you may find yourself putting the book down occasionally to catch some air. But when you come back for more, Burroughs'' brilliant writing and humor in the face of darkness catch you off guard...It will prove to be a lasting treasure, a gorgeously written true-life story destined to be cherished and quoted long after its last page is read. Best of all, by the book''s end, it bravely stands as a life-affirming survival guide for all the misfits of the world." --The Tampa Tribune
"Running with Scissorsis a cut above...screamingly funny...Two things make Burroughs'' book so compelling: his wit and his depiction of the wild goings-on in this large, strange family...But the true source of Running with Scissors'' appeal stems from Burroughs'' ability to bring the 1970''s alive...In the end, the book celebrates Burroughs'' resilient, upbeat spirit, which helps him surmount one of the weirder childhoods on record." --USA TODAY
"Augusten Burroughs'' memoir,Running With Scissors, is a surreal and entertaining trip through a young life most readers will thank God wasn''t theirs...Burroughs never lets his readers forget that stuck in the middle of all the madness is a confused boy." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Shocking, sarcastic, humorous but never dull, the memoir has an effect similar to watching a car accident. You know you shouldn''t gawk, but you simply can''t turn away from the carnage." --Boston Herald
"He survived parental trauma, his mom''s psychiatrist''s house of horrors and, to bring the book into the here and now, an acquaintance with a pedophile...But Augusten Burroughs''s memoir still makes you laugh, because it''s as funny as it is twisted." --G.Q.
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