Role Models

Author: Waters, John

Individual film directors, film-makers

Published on 2 October 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group (Corsair) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 320 pages
198 x 142 x 21 | 260g

Role Models is a wild and witty self-portrait of John Waters, America's 'Pope of Trash', told through intimate profiles of his favourite 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 O’Hair 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 John Waters form his own brand of neurotic happiness.

A paean to the power of subversive inspiration that delights, amuses and happily horrifies in equal measure...