Running with scissors- Augustan Burroughs

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Fiona Hook, The Times

After nearly two vears on the New York Times bestseller list, Running with Scissors the movie, starring Annette Bening, Joseph Fiennes, Alec Baldwin and Gwyneth Paltrow, is now released in the UK.

When Augusten Burroughs was twelve, his mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to her psychiatrist, a man who might have benefited from a touch of therapy himself. This is the story of the bizarre years Augusten spent in the doctor's dilapidated Victorian mansion, getting to know the pedophile in-patient who lived in the garden shed, eating Valium tablets like other kids eat sweeties and resorting to the vintage electroshock therapy machine to liven up those quieter moments.

Running with Scissors is a blast... In the world of childhood