Augusten Burroughs May 25, 2008

'The Brady Bunch on Viagra' The Observer
'Adrian Mole scripted by Hieronymus Bosch' The Times
'Dave Pelzer with a whoopee cushion' The Guardian

Augusten Burroughs' best-selling memoir Running with Scissors redefined a genre with its left-field take on a childhood in freefall. Hilarious, sardonic and relentlessly eccentric, it thrust its creator into celebrity orbit, dominating the bestseller charts for four years and spawning the big-screen treatment c/o Paltrow, Benning, Baldwin and co. His latest off beat exposé A Wolf at the Table explores his troubled relationship with his philosopher father. A rare UK visit from a bona fide US maverick!

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