At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor, living with the doctor’s bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The 1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. A blistering satire of our overcharged, scandal obsessed world, Sellevision is ‘an absolute howl… Then there’s Leigh, whose affair with married Sellevision boss Howard Toast is going nowhere until she announces their relationship on air. Popping pills and drinking heavily, she fails to notice that her husband is spending a lot of time with the young babysitter who lives next door. As Max struggles to find a new job in television, the popular and perky host Peggy Jean Smythe is receiving sinister emails from a stalker. When Max Andrews, the much loved and handsome that is, lonely and gay host of a ‘Toys for Tots’ segment, accidentally exposes himself in front of millions of kids, Sellevision faces its first big scandal. Welcome to the world of Sellevision, America’s premier retail broadcasting network.

The hilarious first novel by the 1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry, A Wolf at the Table, and You Better Not Cry, Sellevision is Augusten Burrough’s darkly funny and vastly entertaining skewering of a very troubled home shopping channel.

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