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Possible Side Effects (Hardcover)
$23.95
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Description
From the million-copy bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs’s most provocative collection yet.
This book is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This book is not approved to treat disorders such as eBay addiction or incessant blind dating. In studies, some people reported inappropriate, convulsive laughter, a tingling sensation in the limbs, and sudden gasping. Fewer than 1 percent reported narcolepsy. Doll collectors may experience special sensitivity, as may discourteous drivers, candy-company brand managers, and nicotine-gum users. This book has been shown to be especially helpful to those with parents, grandparents, life partners, and incontinent dogs. People with dry, cracked skin have responded well to this book, as have people with certain heart conditions. Do not operate heavy machinery while reading this book, until you know what effects it may have on you. This text is contraindicated in those suffering from certain psychiatric disorders, including---but not limited to---readers afflicted with anhedonia, which is the inability to experience pleasure. Ask your doctor about Possible Side Effects.
About the Author
Augusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking, all of which have been New York Times bestsellers and are published around the world. A film version of Running with Scissors starring Annette Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow was adapted for the screen by Ryan Murphy. Augusten has been named one of the fifteen funniest people in America by Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City and western Massachusetts.
Praise for Possible Side Effects…
Augusten Burroughs is:
“One of the most compelling and screamingly funny voices of the new century.”
--USA Today
“Deliciously perverse.”
--People
“Endearingly neurotic...he hooks you into a story better than anybody.”
--Entertainment Weekly
“Outrageously magical...surprisingly thoughtful.”
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
TEEN. BOOK. CLUB.
Calling all the bookish youth!
Teen. Book. Club.
We have found the most wonderful and amazing teen-lit-world insider ever to lead our brand-new every-last-Wednesday-of-the-month group now forming. She is Liz Gallager and you can read all about her amazingly hooked-up and authorial self here. There will be yummy PIZZA provided by Ballard's own Snoose Junction Pizzeria. There will be sneak-peek book GIVEAWAYS for everyone!
If you are or have or know a teen as excited as we are about this, pass this info on!:
Our book for our next meeting: 25 August 6:30 - 8 PM is:
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, discounted @ Book Club rate
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