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This is how proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more : for young and old alike

From the author of 'Running With Scissors' comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books.

Main Author: Burroughs, Augusten.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Macmillan Audio, p2012.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Burroughs, Augusten.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography.
Self-help techniques > Humor.
American wit and humor.
Audiobooks.
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Summary: From the author of 'Running With Scissors' comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books.
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Compact discs.
Duration: 6:00:00.
Physical Description: 5 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781427221636
1427221634
Author Notes: Augusten X. Burroughs was born with the name of Christopher Richter Robison in Pittsburgh, PA in 1965. At the age of 18, he chose the name Augusten X. Burroughs and legalized it in a Boston courtroom. He was raised in Western Massachusetts, after his mother had abandoned him to live with her psychiatrist. Burroughs dropped out of school at 13, his mother and her shrink helping him fake a suicide attempt, got his GED at 17 and then flunked out of community college. Burroughs survived a harrowing childhood, but used it and the strength he gained from surviving to springboard his literary career.

He has been a dog trainer, candy store clerk, waiter, sail cutter, store detective and, from the age of 19, an advertising copywriter. Burroughs lived in San Francisco for five years, then moved to New York in the early 1990s.

Burroughs writes memoirs (including the bestseller Running with Scissors which was made into a movie in 2006), as well as a sex column in DETAILS magazine, the occasional commentary for NPR, articles for New York Magazine, and essays for salon.com, Borders and Booksense. All of Augusten's subsequent books -Dry, Magical Thinking, Possible Side Effects, A Wolf at the Table, You Better Not Cry, This is How and Lust and Wonder- were instant New York Times bestsellers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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