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Magical Thinking: True Stories First Edition
Author(s): Augusten Burroughs (Author)
- Publisher: St Martins Pr
- Publication Date: 5 Oct. 2004
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 0312315945
- ISBN-13: 9780312315948
Book Description
It begins with a Tang Instant-Breakfast Drink television commercial:
“Yes, you, Augusten. You were great. We want you.”
I can now trace my manic adult tendencies to this moment. It was the first time I felt deeply thrilled about something just a fraction of an instant after being completely crushed. I believe those three words “We want you” were enough to cause my brain to rewire itself, and from then on, I would require more than other people….– from Magical Thinking‘s “Commercial Break”A contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. A different kind of “roof work.” Dating an undertaker who shows up in a minivan. This is the fabric of Augusten Burroughs’s life: a collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate, stories that shine a flashlight into both dark and hilarious places. With
Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs goes where other memoirists fear to tread.Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
“A wrenching, edifying journey…with the added benefit of being really entertaining.”
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“Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs’s prose lurks considerable complexity.”
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“A great read.”
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Dry is more than a heartbreaking tale; it’s a heroic one.”– People on Dry
“Laughter on the road to sobriety…for aficionados of outrageous black comedy.”
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“Bawdy, outrageous…insanely funny (quite literally)…a William Burroughs situation comedy.”
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“Running with Scissors, as a memoir in the current conventional sense, makes a good run at blowing every other contender out of the water.”
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“Outrageously amusing…wait until you get a load of this guy’s material…. He can consider this a fan letter. Grade A.”
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“As funny as it is twisted.”
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