From the author:
'My father doesn't feature much in Running with Scissors. And one of the reasons for this is because he didn't feature much in my life. But there's another reason, too: Our relationship was so complicated, so dark, so confusing and so big, that to tell the story would require a book. So finally, upon the death of my father in 2005, I decided to tell the story I have been most afraid yet most compelled to tell.'
This prequel to international hit Running With Scissors tells the story of Augusten's relationship with his tormented father: a man who sent his wife mad and saw his other son run away from home, prior to Augusten going into foster care. Harrowing, insightful and amusing by turns.
- ISBN10 0753520370
- ISBN13 9780753520376
- Publish Date 5 March 2009 (first published 29 April 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Imprint Virgin Digital
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 256
- Language English