Role models
By: John Waters.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780374251475
Subjects: Waters, John, -- 1946- -- Sources; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography; Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography; Artists -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere. This book is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, the owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to playwright Tennessee Williams; from atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from English novelist Denton Welch to timeless singer Johnny Mathis, these are the figures that helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Johnny and me; title: Kindness of strangers; title: Leslie; title: Rei Kawakubo; title: Baltimore heroes; title: Bookworm; title: Little Richard, happy at last; title: Outsider porn; title: Roommates; title: Cult leader.