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Author Burroughs, Augusten.

Title A wolf at the table : a memoir / Augusten Burroughs
Published Sydney : Picador, 2008

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 MELB  810.6 B9451 Z/Buw  AVAILABLE
Description 242 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Summary "From the number one New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes an hilarious, frightening and compulsively readable new memoir. A Wolf at the Table tells the story of Augusten's early childhood when he lived with his crazy father, John Robison Sr, a man only briefly touched upon in Running with Scissors, his spaced-out poet mother, and his delinquent older brother, John Robison Jnr (author of Look Me In The Eye). Told with brutal honesty and psychologically penetrating insight, it chronicles the young Augustens increasing paranoia as he navigates a household that is by turns very funny, and very sinister. He wants his big brother to like him and his mother to understand him, but most of all he wants his father's love and acceptance, yet can't be sure he isn't a ticking time bomb A Wolf at the Table is Augusten's best book in ten years. Less controversial than Running with Scissors but no less funny and heartrending, it will delight his fans as well as general and childhood memoir readers. Augusten Burroughs is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking, Dry, Running with Scissors, and Sellevision. He lives in New York City and Amherst, Massachusetts."--Provided by publisher
Analysis Augusten Burroughs
Authors
Autobiography
Fiction
Overseas item
United States
Notes First published in 2000 in the US by St Martin's Press
Subject Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth.
Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- ?́ƠBiography
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
SUBJECT Amherst (Mass.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054963 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780330424264 (paperback)