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From the number-one bestselling author
of Running with Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burroughs's
most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that
give voice to the thoughts that we all have but 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. With Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs
goes where other memoirists fear to tread.
Augusten Burroughs is the New
York Times bestselling author
of Dry, Running with Scissors, and Sellevision. He lives
in New York City and Amherst, Massachusetts.
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