But it amused me, so I kept on writing, and I wrote until very late that night. It’s a novel about the home shopping world, that whole world-and, I didn’t know what I had written. “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. “I woke up one morning hung over, and I sat down and I wrote something,” Burroughs said in an interview. It is about four people, Max Andrews, Peggy Jean Smythe, Leigh, and Bebe, and their lives, all linked together with Sellevision, a television company.īurroughs wrote the novel when he was getting sober. Sellevision is a comedy that contains themes of greed and obsession. Unlike Burroughs’ subsequent memoirs, Sellevision is a work of fiction. 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.
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