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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Augusten Burroughs
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 298
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press, Audio Renaissance, Picador
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780739474969
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First sentence
“The first time I was star-struck, the object of my affection was a glamorous Eastern Airlines stewardess.”
About Augusten Burroughs · 1965
Augusten Xon Burroughs is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002).
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