Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Magical thinking : true stories / Augusten Burroughs.

by Burroughs, Augusten.

View full image

St. Martin's Press, c2004.

Burroughs, Augusten.

Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

9780312315955 (1st Picador ed. 2005)

0312315953 (1st Picador ed. 2005)

xii, 268 p. ; 22 cm.

From the author of Running with Scissors and Dry come true stories that give voice to the thoughts we dare not mention. 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.

Autobiographies.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal