Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder - Rilegato

Waters, John

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ISBN 10: 0374214964 ISBN 13: 9780374214968

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1900

Riassunto

<p>No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics <i>Pink Flamingos</i>, <i>Polyester</i>, <i>Hairspray</i>, <i>Cry-Baby</i>, and <i>A Dirty Shame</i>, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in <i>Mr. Know-It-All</i> he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.”<br><br>Studded with cameos, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from the author's personal collection, <i>Mr. Know-It-All</i> is Waters’ most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book—another instant Waters classic.<br><br>“Waters doesn’t kowtow to the received wisdom, he flips it the bird . . . [Waters] has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that funny rather than repellent.” —Jonathan Yardley, <i>The Washington Post</i><br><br>“<i>Carsick</i> becomes a portrait not just of America’s desolate freeway nodes—though they’re brilliantly evoked—but of American fame itself.” —Lawrence Osborne,<i> The New York Times Book Review</i></p>

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Informazioni sull?autore

<b>John Waters’</b> books <i>Role Models</i> (2010) and <i>Carsick</i> (2014) were national bestsellers, and his spoken-word shows <i>This Filthy World</i> and <i>A John Waters Christmas</i> continue to be performed around the world. <i>Indecent Exposure</i>, a retrospective exhibition of Waters’ acclaimed artwork, was recently shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. He is at work on a novel.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1900
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0374214964
• ISBN 13: 9780374214968
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 372
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile