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A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
 

A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir

by Augusten Burroughs

Amazon Significant Seven, April 2008: When I started reading A Wolf at the Table, I thought I knew what to expect. Augusten Burroughs captures intense experience with an inexplicably cool remove, imparting a stillness and purity to emotions that would likely run amok in anyone else's hands. I love this quality of his writing, and it's present in full force in this memoir of a childhood spent... (read more)

Top tags: memoir,  nonfiction,  dysfunction,  alcoholism,  2008 (all tags)

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David N
  • Rated 4 stars

“Once again, Augusten tells brutally frank story of himself and his family! He fills in the blanks left from his memior "Running with Scissors," so we can better understand especially why his mother did the things she did. This is another spellbinding read!”

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Joe M
  • Rated 1 stars

“After two bad books of short stories, I was pleased to see that Burroughs was again writing a memoir. Unfortunately, I thought this book was poorly written and uninteresting. I was hoping for something of the caliber of Dry, but this book definitely fell short.”

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  • Rated 3.738095 stars
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  • Rated 0 stars
  

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  • Miriam S

    miriam s said:

    “I loved this book; what a gift to be able to capture a child's perspective in trying to understand psychiatric disabilities in one's parents; reads like a suspense novel; very open and honest; it makes sense of "Running With Scissors" and why Augusten's mother would have given custody of him to her psychiatrist; it is a bit "dark" in tone, but many good books are--the ones that stay with you afterwards, at least; haunting and gripping!”

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • Scott Barney

    scott barney said:

    “definitely darker than his earlier books, but I still quite enjoyed the read.”

    posted Friday, June 20 2008
  • badcat

    badcat said:

    “wow--i really agree with these comments--"magical thinking" was my favroite of his and this one is not doing it for me. It's not that i need him to be funny--he is a great writer in any genre, but this one does seem a little bit too much like the therapist exercise mentioned here in the other comments. I love his voice and eye for detail, and the way he captures a child's thinking, but I'm not sure the narrative holds together very well. His other books are so phenomenal though that I am going to keep reading...”

    posted Friday, June 20 2008
  • Laura C

    laura c said:

    “I love Augusten Burroughs and have read everything of his I can get my hands on...but I am about half way through this book and I do not love it so far...”

    posted Monday, June 16 2008
  • Jennifer C

    jennifer c said:

    “This is a little more serious and not as funny as his other books. Makes me think his therapist asked him to "write out all your feelings about your father".

    I liked this the least of all his other books. Just not as engaging or interesting as his others.”

    posted Monday, June 9 2008
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