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 unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy’s survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
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(1965, Pittsburgh, Pensilvania) En la actualidad vive en la ciudad de Nueva York y en Massachusetts.Su libro autobiográfico Recortes de mi vida obtuvo un gran éxito de crítica y público, estuvo más de setenta semanas en las lista de libros más vendidos del New York Times y se tradujo a varias lenguas. En 2006 se efectuó una versión cinematográfica dirigida por Ryan Murphy y protagonizada por Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Alec Baldwin y Joseph Cross. En su segundo libro, En el dique seco, se narran sus nuevas peripecias autobiográficas.