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| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Published | 2000 St. Martin's Press |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 241 pp |
| ISBN | 0-312-26772-X |
| OCLC | 44090536 |
| 813/.6 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3552.U745 S45 2000 |
| Followed by | Running with Scissors (2002) |
Sellevision (2000), a novel, is the first published work by Augusten Burroughs, author of the best-selling books Running with Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking. Unlike Burroughs’ subsequent memoirs, Sellevision is a work of fiction.
Sellevision is a comedy that contains themes of greed and obsession. It is about four people, Max Andrews, Peggy Jean Smythe, Leigh, and Bebe, and their lives, all linked together with Sellevision, a television company.
Burroughs wrote the novel when he was getting sober. “I woke up one morning hung over, and I sat down and I wrote something,” Burroughs said in an interview. “It was two pages and it made me laugh, and I hadn’t laughed for years at that point, and that turned out to be the first couple pages of my first book, which was Sellevision. It’s a novel about the home shopping world, that whole world—and, I didn’t know what I had written. But it amused me, so I kept on writing, and I wrote until very late that night. And I drank a little bit less. And the same thing the next day. Again, I had no idea what I was doing or where it was coming from, but by the seventh day, I was not drinking at all.“[1]
- ^ Interview with August Burroughs, David Shankbone, Wikinews, October 12, 2007.