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Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

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Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 1, Chapters 1-3

Part 1, Chapter 4-Part 2, Chapter 2

Part 2, Chapters 3-5

Part 2, Chapters 6-11

Key Figures

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Important Quotes

Essay Topics

Why does Burroughs claim that advertising is the ideal career for him? How has his troubled childhood prepared him for the demands of the advertising industry?

How does denial manifest in Burroughs’s behavior both at work and in his personal life?

Burroughs’s stock-in-trade is humor. What purposes does it serve in the narrative? Give some examples and explain what deeper emotions that humor might be masking.