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This is how : proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more-- for young and old alike / Augusten Burroughs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 230 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0312563558 (trade)
  • 9780312563554 (trade)
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Contents:
How to ride an elevator -- How to feel like shit -- How to find love -- How to be fat -- How to be thin --How to feel sorry for yourself -- How to be confident -- How to fail -- How to get the job -- How to shatter shame -- How to see the truth behind the truth -- How to end your life --How to remain unhealed -- Why having it all is not -- How to get over your addiction to the past -- How to be a good mental patient -- How to make yourself uncomfortable (and why you should) -- How to finish your drink -- How to hold on to your dream or maybe not -- How to identify love by knowing what it's not -- How to live unhappily ever after -- How to feel less regret -- How to stop being afraid of your anger -- How to be sick -- How to lose someone you love -- How to let a child die -- How to change the world by yourself -- This is why.
Review: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books." Publisher's description.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Burrough A. B972 Available 33111006724237
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex withyour spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life. If you have ever wondered, How am I aupposed to survive this?

This is How.

How to ride an elevator -- How to feel like shit -- How to find love -- How to be fat -- How to be thin --How to feel sorry for yourself -- How to be confident -- How to fail -- How to get the job -- How to shatter shame -- How to see the truth behind the truth -- How to end your life --How to remain unhealed -- Why having it all is not -- How to get over your addiction to the past -- How to be a good mental patient -- How to make yourself uncomfortable (and why you should) -- How to finish your drink -- How to hold on to your dream or maybe not -- How to identify love by knowing what it's not -- How to live unhappily ever after -- How to feel less regret -- How to stop being afraid of your anger -- How to be sick -- How to lose someone you love -- How to let a child die -- How to change the world by yourself -- This is why.

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books." Publisher's description.

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