Role Models - Couverture rigide

Waters, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374251479 ISBN 13 : 9780374251475

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Waters John

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the incomparable John Waters, renowned cult film director, artist and actor, Role Models is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich and happily horrify readers everywhere.

In this self-portrait, told through intimate literary profiles of his favourite personalities, John Waters invites readers to appreciate those who helped him form his own brand of neurotic happiness; singer Johnny Mathis, Comme Des Garcons founder Rei Kawakubo, actress Patty McCormack, writers Tennessee Williams, Lionel Shriver, Denton Welch and Ivy Compton-Burnett, insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena, ex-Manson follower Leslie van Houten, lesbian stripper Zorro, artist Cy Twombly and outsider pornographers Bobby Garcia and David Hurles.

From the famous to the unknown, the sublime to the extreme, Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse and hilarious minds of our time.

'The Hairspray director John Waters proves he is still delightfully disgraceful.' Independent on Sunday (Books of the Year)

'Outrageously funny. Waters is more than a cult movie auteur; he is a great American ironist.' Sunday Telegraph (Books of the Year)

'His writing feels stealthy and surprising, full of solitary devotion and delight.' Daily Telegraph

'Rich with wonderful insight and one-liners.' Empire Magazine

A bible. A copy should be found in every seedy motel drawer.' Gay Times

'Very funny and strangely affectionate' Metro

Entertaining but heartfelt, this is an insight into what the Pope of Trash truly treasures.

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Revue de presse

A delirious descent into Waters World, Role Models is a true-life confessional from one of America's greatest ironists. John Waters is a man always ready and willing to say the unsayable. He is the dark mirror of contemporary culture. From haute couture to low culture, from literary outsiders to lapsed actors, he delivers razor-sharp pen portraits of the women and men who have perverted and inspired him by turns. And yet Waters's warped imagination is always humane, his judgments insightful. Role Models is as much a philosophical manifesto as it is an utterly hilarious and shamelessly entertaining read. --(Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan, or The Whale)

Disarmingly unfiltered confessions that capture Waters' singular blend of weirdness and guileless honesty. --(San Francisco Chronicle)

John Waters has a great gift for appreciation - whether for toothless lesbian strippers in Baltimore or the most rarefied painters and writers of our day. He is a dandy who has done away with everyone else's hierarchies and created a new world that conforms only to his own taste for trash and the sublime. He is frank, funny, and (strangely enough) both sensible and outrageous. --(Edmund White, author of City Boy)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374251479
• ISBN 13: 9780374251475
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible