Running with scissors burroughs5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() At his mother’s insistence, Burroughs spent much of his adolescence living among the Finches. Finch, a jolly and permissive yet ominous figure who advocated intense therapy and nonjudgmental fathering. The estrangement of his increasingly manic-depressive poet mother and cold, alcoholic father flung young Burroughs into the strange Northampton, Massachusetts, household of family psychiatrist Dr. “My parents loathed each other and the life they had built together,” he writes. Autobiography of adolescent trauma depicting the author’s quest for survival in an unorthodox family alongside his quest for fabulous hair.Ĭopywriter turned novelist Burroughs ( Sellevision, 2000) captures in his memoir a particular cultural moment in the late 1970s and early ’80s when the baby boomers’ flaccid if-it-feels-good-do-it ethos soured. ![]()
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