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      Augusten Burroughs
      Toil & Trouble : A Memoir

      2020 | Nakladatelství Folio, spol.s r.o.

      'Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Note that "witches" and "witchcraft" are absent from this list. When really they should be right there at the top. The thing is, I wouldn't believe in them, and I would …privately ridicule any idiot who did, except for one thing: I am a witch.' - From Toil & Trouble For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn't have known. He manifested things that shouldn't have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the Pendle witches of Lancashire, England. It was a bond that he and his mother shared - until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family . After that, Augusten was on his own. From the hilarious to the terrifying, Toil & Trouble is a chronicle of one man's journey to understand himself, to reconcile the powers he can wield with things with which he is helpless. There are very few coincidences, as you will learn. Ghosts are real, trees can want to kill you, beavers are the spawn of Satan, houses are alive, and in the end, love is the most powerful magic of all. 'Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Note that "witches" and "witchcraft" are absent f…rom this list. When really they should be right there at the top. The thing is, I wouldn't believe in them, and I would privately ridicule any idiot who did, except for one thing: I am a witch.' - From Toil & Trouble For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn't have known. He manifested things that shouldn't have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the Pendle witches of Lancashire, England. It was a bond that he and his mother shared - until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family . After that, Augusten was on his own. From the hilarious to the terrifying, Toil & Trouble is a chronicle of one man's journey to understand himself, to reconcile the powers he can wield with things with which he is helpless. There are very few coincidences, as you will learn. Ghosts are real, trees can want to kill you, beavers are the spawn of Satan, houses are alive, and in the end, love is the most powerful magic of all.

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      Vazba: brožovaná
      Počet stran: 319
      Jazyk:  anglicky
      ISBN10: 1250752000
      ISBN: 9781250752000
      Vydání: 1
      Vystaveno: 23. 2. 2025 22:33
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      Augusten Burroughs

      Augusten Burroughs

      Narodil se 23. 10. 1965 v Pittsburghu, v Pensylvánii jako Christopher Robison. Jeho matka, Margaret byla básnířka, otec, John G. byl bývalým ředitelem filozofické fakulty Univerzity Amhers ve státě Massachusetts. Jeho bratr, John Elder se v dospělém věku stal spisovatelem a řečníkem. Společně s rodinou se Augusten stěhoval napříč Massachusetts, jeho rodiče se rozvedli v roce 1978, když mu bylo 12 let. Adoptoval ho matčin psychiatr, jež bydlel v Northamptonu. Ze střední školy odešel v 17ti letech, v 18ti si změnil jméno na stávající Augusten Borroughs. Poté se odstěhoval do New Yorku, na Manhattan, kde pracoval pro reklamní agenturu. V roce 1996 odjel do Minnesoty, kde se léčil z alkoholismu v místním psychiatrickém středisku. Život s adoptivním otcem, psychiatrem a ostatně většinu svého dětství sepsal v memoárech s názvem Hlava nehlava . Následovaly další knihy stejného žánru, Na suchu , kde popisuje léčení v Minnesotě, Magical Thinking, kde píše o své dospělosti, Possible Side Effects a Sellevision. Bylo o něm napsáno několik článků ve známých amerických magazínech jako například People nebo The Guardian. V roce 2006 se jeho kniha Hlava nehlava dočkala stejnojmenného zpracování od režiséra Ryana Murphyho. V současnosti bydlí Augusten v New Yorku, odkud občas jezdí do Amherstu v Massachusetts.

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