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After Burroughs was adopted by his mother's shrink at age 13, his childhood took a turn for the bizarre with electroshock machine fun and games; month-long family/patient sleep-overs on the front lawn; a physician-assisted fake suicide attempt to get excused from school forever; and a pedophile living in the barn. 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...
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"When it first appeared in 1963, John Rechy's City of Night was greeted with equal parts fanfare and horror. The unapologetically sexual story of a young gay hustler was praised by critics but shocked some readers with its frank treatment of an underground world most pretended did not exist. Equally unsettling was that the novel was largely autobiographical. That a street hustler had gained such literary fame and widespread acclaim was disturbing...