{"product_id":"running-with-scissors","title":"Running with Scissors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRunning with Scissors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eow a Major Motion Picture!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRunning with Scissors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of 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 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....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRunning with Scissors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Memoir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46209720910036,"sku":"","price":29.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/81NSWs6JiVL._SL1500.jpg?v=1744360710","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/running-with-scissors","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}