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By LESLIE CHURCH AND NICOLE COLEMAN | Feb. 2, 2007Book: Running with Scissors, A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs.Theme: Disturbed childhood.Film: A movie of the same title was released last fall with Annette Bening ("American Beauty"), Alec Baldwin ("The Departed"), Gwyneth Paltrow ("Shakespeare in Love") and Joseph Cross ("Flags of our Fathers").Accolades: The author, Augusten Burroughs, was named by Entertainment Weekly as one of the fifteen funniest people in America.Summary: Based on Burroughs' real life childhood, the novel is a recollection of his experiences growing up with a lesbian mother who has psychotic tendencies and a yearly nervous breakdown, and an alcoholic father.
