Heartbreaking, Gut-Wrenching

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	• A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father Augusten Burroughs St. Martin's Press, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 118 reviews view larger image
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Heartbreaking, Gut-Wrenching

Those looking for a Dave Pelzer-worthy nightmare of parental abuse can look elsewhere. Instead, what is most horrifying about Augusten Burroughs' father is what he DIDN'T do. By virtually withholding all love and affection from his younger son, he created a hole that Burroughs in turn tried to fill with improper relationships, alcohol, and drugs.

Burroughs conveys the horror of his childhood with stark vividness, successfully portraying the emotions and desires of the child he was. A pet dog forced to live outside and refused medical care, a guinea pig left without food and water, a son denied even the barest scraps of love, until he is forced to snuggle with a "father" he has created from old clothes sprayed with aftershave.

This is truly a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, gut-wrenching in its honesty.

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Not Up to Par

I am a huge Augustin Borroughs fan. I have read everything he has written and loved it. However I was very disappointed with A Wolf at the Table. So much so I only skimmed the last chapter because I just wanted to be done with it. It just was not of the same quality of all his other books. It is a very dark book, which I normally would have enjoyed, but at times it was just slow and boreing. I just didn't feel the emotion I normally feel when reading his stuff. Sorry.... but if you are going to read Borroughs I highly reccomend any of his other books.

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What a good read!

I could not put this book down! When I read Running With Scissors I kept wondering what happend to Augusten's father. So I was very excited when I saw this book was about his father. I loved it! I look forward to more books from Augesten Burroughs.

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