Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Published on: 2010-04-01
Page Count: 347 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Maturity Rating: MATURE
Language: en
Embeddable: Yes
PDF Available: No
EPUB Available: Yes
ISBN-13: 9781429902526
ISBN-10: 1429902523
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.

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