A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
From the number one New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes a blackly comic, frightening and compulsively readable new memoir.
A Wolf at the Table tells the story of Augusten's early childhood when he lived with his crazy father, John Robison Sr, a man only briefly touched upon in Running with Scissors, his spaced-out poet mother, and his delinquent older brother, John Robison Jnr (author of Look Me In The Eye).
Told with brutal honesty and psychologically penetrating insight, it chronicles the young Augusten's increasing paranoia as he navigates a household that is by turns very funny, and very sinister. He wants his big brother to like him and his mother to understand him, but most of all he wants his father's love and acceptance, yet can't be sure he isn't a ticking time bomb...
A Wolf at the Table is Augusten's best book in ten years. Less controversial than Running with Scissors but no less funny and heartrending, it will delight his fans as well as general and childhood memoir readers.
Format: Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.4 x 2.0 | 352g
Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Imprint: Picador
Publication City/Country: Sydney, Australia
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0330424262
ISBN13: 9780330424264
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. There is a white rectangular sticker on the top-right corner of the front cover which has the words: 17. 70 BIOG written in red pen. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.