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The Land That Time Forgot written by Edgar Rice Burroughs performed by Raymond Todd on CD (Unabridged)

The Land That Time Forgot written by Edgar Rice Burroughs performed by Raymond Todd on CD (Unabridged)£34.99

Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs’s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island (1874) and Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864).

Running with Scissors written by Augusten Burroughs performed by Augusten Burroughs on CD (Unabridged)

Running with Scissors written by Augusten Burroughs performed by Augusten Burroughs on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781427277503
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Autobiography
Duration:  450 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Augusten Burroughs
Performer 1:  Augusten Burroughs

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Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of being Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in...

perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau.

Here, there were no rules. There was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock-therapy machine under the stairs...

Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it is a truly amazing chronicle of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

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