Running With Scissors Orion gives readers an accessible

gives readers an accessible

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his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature

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Running With Scissors Orion gives readers an accessibleIn this unforgettable memoir Augusten Burroughs recounts the bizarre events of his childhood. After his parents divorce, his mother, a delusional poet, left him in the care of her psychiatrist, a man who might have benefited from a little therapy himself. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian mansion with the doctors bizarre family and a few patients. In the psychiatrists house, there are no rules, only