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Dry: A Memoir
enlarge	Author: Augusten Burroughs Publisher: St. Martin's Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$24.95~~ Buy New: $1.29 You Save: $23.66 (95%) Buy New/Used/Collectible from $1.29 Avg. Customer Rating: (255 reviews) Sales Rank: 357997 Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 320 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 ISBN: 0312272057 Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780312272050 ASIN: 0312272057 Publication Date: June 2, 2003 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description With unconventional wit and a wonderfully weird way of looking at things, Augusten Burroughs chronicles his life on the edge after leaving his deeply eccentric foster family. Dry opens in Manhattan, where Augusten has established a life for himself as a high-paid advertising hotshot. But his past haunts him still as he tries to create a grown-up life. Dry is at times howlingly funny, devastatingly moving and, in the end, uplifting. It further establishes Burroughs as one of the most original authors writing today. Amazon.com Review Fans of Augusten Burroughs's darkly funny memoir Running with Scissors were left wondering at the end of that book what would become of young Augusten after his squalid and fascinating childhood ended. In Dry, we find that although adult Augusten is doing well professionally, earning a handsome living as an ad writer for a top New York agency, Burroughs's personal life is a disaster. His apartment is a sea of empty Dewar's bottles, he stays out all night boozing, and he dabs cologne on his tongue in an unsuccessful attempt to mask the stench of alcohol on his breath at work. When his employer insists he seek help, Burroughs ships out to Minnesota for detoxification, counseling, and amusingly told anecdotes about the use of stuffed animals in group therapy. But after a month of such treatment, he's back in Manhattan and tenuously sober. And while its one thing to lay off the sauce in rehab, Burroughs learns that it's quite another to resume your former life while avoiding the alcohol that your former life was based around. This quest to remain sober is made dramatically more difficult, and the tale more harrowing, when Burroughs begins an ill-advised romance with a crack addict. Certainly the "recovered alcoholic fighting to stay sober" tale is not new territory for a memoirist. But Burroughs's account transcends cliches: it doesn't adhere to the traditional "temptation narrowly resisted" storyline and it features, in Burroughs himself, a central character that is sympathetic even when he's neither likable nor admirable. But what ultimately makes this memoir such a terrific read is a brilliant and candid sense of humor that manages to stay dry even when recalling events where the author was anything but. --John Moe

Customer Reviews: Read 250 more reviews... Absolutely Fantastic. December 28, 2008 I was addicted to reading this book. Finished it in a week. This is Burroughs BEST work. I have heard that a movie is in the works, as long as it isn't as horrible as 'Running with Scissors' was, then I can't wait to see how they do that. I can relate to Augusten in his career choices, making this enjoyable for me to read. Also, its a good semi-continuation to 'Running with Scissors.' I feel bad for this guy, his life (what is completely true from his 'memoirs') seems to have been absolutely ridiculous, but it makes for a GREAT book! I'm a Burroughs junkie December 26, 2008 I'm addicted!!! Augusten Burroughs tells about his life and what led him into rehab and he tells it with such zest. He has such an odd sense of humor you can't help but to keep turning the pages. He allows you a peek inside his thought process and no matter how messed up it may seem I think at some point we all have had those thoughts but are too scared to let anyone in on it. This is a great read. If you love Burroughs like I do, you have to read this December 1, 2008 If you love Burroughs like I do, you have to read this. I'm a big fan and each volume of his memoirs has been great. Excellent story telling October 13, 2008 At times hysterically funny and at other times tremendously sad. I found pieces of myself throughout the book and could relate on a lot of levels. great story One of his best October 5, 2008 Dry is funny, in the spirit of Magical Thinking with a darker twist that's more reminiscent of Wolf at the Table. It's a book about getting sober, but--as is often the case with Augusten Burroughs--it's also much more than that. Entertaining start to finish and if you like Augusten Burroughs, you'll likely read this book in just a few sittings. It made a plane ride go by VERY quickly for me.

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