Role Models

English

ISBN: 0374532869

EAN: 9780374532864

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers/Performing Arts / Individual Director/

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 04/26/2011

Synopsis: 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. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle of the road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray OHair to the insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis; these are the extreme figures who helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness. Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.

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Role Models

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 5.4 inches

Length: 8.1 inches

Weight: 13.86 oz

Pages: 320