When his dysfunctional family sent Augusten Burroughs away to be raised in the home of his mother's therapist, he became part of an even more dysfunctional and unusual family dynamic. In this bestseller, which has become a classic of the wackier side of memoir literature, Burroughs doesn't flinch at any grotesquerie or atrocity, recording it all- ...
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Running with Scissors" delves into new territory with his most personal and unexpected memoir yet. "A Wolf at the Table" is the story of Burroughs' relationship with his father, his stunning psychological cruelty, and the redemptive power of hope.
Augusten Burroughs continues his series of memoirs with this wild collection of stories. Here Burroughs confesses to various outrageous thoughts, including his desire to murder his cleaning lady and an obsession with becoming a transsexual.
Bram Stoker's classic novel of suspense and horror was a bestseller in Britain when it was published in 1897. A late 20th-century biographer of Stoker has suggested that famed Victorian actor Henry Irving, for whom Stoker worked for many years, was an inspiration for some of Count Dracula's characteristics.
From the bestselling author of "Running with Scissors" comes his most provocative collection of true stories yet. Readers should be forewarned and read the label: hilarious, troubling, and shocking results might occur.
This satire revolves around Sellevision, a hot shopping channel, and the odd cast of characters who work for it, buy from it, and become involved with each other.
An autobiographical novel written in a confessional, pulp-fiction style, JUNKY is the story of heroin addict William Lee, who is forced to travel as a result of his drug underworld connections.
Augusten Burroughs, the writer who memorialized his traumatic childhood in RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, returns to do the same with his alcoholism, which he tries to deal with by checking himself into a gay rehab clinic in Minnesota. Burroughs's memoir is a humorous account of that experience, and of his lifelong struggles with (and love for) the bottle.
Originally written in 1912, in the first of the acclaimed and legendary series, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, an English nobleman raised in the African jungle by apes rediscovers his human heritage.
NAKED LUNCH, the controversial masterpiece by Beat Generation founding father William S. Burroughs, has the distinction of being the last novel banned in the United States. Decried as obscene, the novel uses frank and extremely graphic depictions of drug use and sex as metaphors for the human condition: all of humanity, Burroughs feels, is ...
The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.
'Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.' In this complete and unexpurgated edition of Burroughs' famous book, he depicts the addict's life: his hallucinations, his ghostly noctural wanderings, his strange sexuality and his hunger for the needle. "Junky" remains one of ...
The first book in the Barsoom series introduces author Burroughs's second-most-famous recurring character, John Carter. Hiding in a cave in the Arizona hills, Carter accidentally discovers a portal, on the other side of which lies the planet Mars.
In the second book in the legendary Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle series, our hero, disenchanted with the world of "civilized" man, returns to Africa and stumbles across a lost city hidden deep in the jungle.
Classic Science Fiction Novel From The Creator Of Tarzan In Which Hadron Of Hastor Seeks Vengeance When A New Weapon Attacks Warlord John Carter And The Lady Helium Disappears.
With unconventional wit and a wonderfully weird way of looking at things, Burroughs, author of "Running with Scissors, " chronicles his life on the edge after leaving his deeply eccentric foster family. "Dry" is at times howlingly funny, devastatingly moving and, in the end, uplifting.
The second book in the Barsoom series sees John Carter and his friend, Tars Tarkas, in the Valley Dor, a place reserved for the dead. Being the warriors that they are, though, Carter and Tarkas vow that they will leave with their lives.
Written at the same time as JUNKY, QUEER revolves around a homosexual relationship in Mexico City, and William Lee's search for the mythical hallucinogen yage in South America. Because of its themes of homosexuality and drug use, this book would not find a publisher until 1986.
The third book in the Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle series finds our hero abandoned on an isolated island, his wife and son kidnapped, and with no one but his trusty panther, Sheeba, to help him.
In the eighth book of the series, Tarzan's trail of revenge leads him into the heart of a tribal war--fought in a region so isolated that even dinosaurs have remained untouched since the dawn of Earth.
In the fourth book of the legendary series, Tarzan's son, kidnapped by his father's archenemy, escapes and, together with an ape named Akut, learns to survive in the jungles, as his father did before him.
The third book in the Barsoom series finds the Princess, John Carter's love, trapped inside the Temple of the Sun for one whole Martian year--unless he can break her out without angering the gods, not to mention the mortals.
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