A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
by Augusten Burroughs
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Author: Augusten BurroughsReader: Augusten Burroughs
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Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2009-03-31
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Picador
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Book Review: "Prey knows when it has escaped"
Summary: 5 Stars
For those who love the wry wit and dark humor of Augusten Burroughs - beware. This is anything but wry wit and dark humor.
A gripping, emotional tale of a child growing up 'terrorized' by an alcoholic father, 'A Wolf At The Table' reads, to me, like a Department of Social Services case file for an emotionally abused child. But having grown up in the 70's and 80's myself, I can tell you that these kinds of things were not readily reported to DSS, unlike today.
Augusten Burroughs here recounts tales of his father: emotionally distant, physically suffering, alcohol addicted, and manic. What was merely 'hinted' at in his past memoirs, 'Running With Scissors' and 'Dry'; is fully fleshed out in detail after horrific detail of the emotional cruelty inflicted upon the author by his father.
There are, here and there, flashes of the brilliant irony that have made him a household name. But be warned - those flashes are few and far between....and bookended by tales of nothing short of a merciless childhood.
Highly recommended...if you can make it through 240 pages of sadness.
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