Book description
'This is the Brady Bunch on Viagra... it is impossible not to laugh
at all the jokes; to admire the sardonic, fetid tone; to wonder,
slack-jawed and agog, at the sheer looniness of the vista he conjures
up' Rachel Cooke, Observer This is the true story of a boy who wanted
to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up living with the Addams
Family. Augusten Burroughs's mother gave him away to be raised by her
psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic
into the bargain. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients and a
sinister man living in the garden shed completed the tableau. In the
perfect squalor of their dilapidated Victorian house, there were no
rules and there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until
summer and Valium was chomped down like sweets. And when things got a
bit slow, there was always the ancient electroshock therapy machine
under the stairs...
