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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780374214968
- Book Title
- Mr. Know-It-All : the Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Gerontology, Personal Memoirs, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Product Information
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 Pink Flamingos , Polyester , Hairspray , Cry-Baby , and A Dirty Shame , is one of the world's great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All 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." 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, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters' most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book--another instant Waters classic. "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, The Washington Post " Carsick becomes a portrait not just of America's desolate freeway nodes--though they're brilliantly evoked--but of American fame itself." --Lawrence Osborne, The New York Times Book Review
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374214964
ISBN-13
9780374214968
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038266313
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mr. Know-It-All : the Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Gerontology, Personal Memoirs, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1998.3.W38a3 2019
Reviews
"That John Waters is a national treasure is a surety. Period. Thank you and good night . . . [ Mr. Know-It- All] shows a vulnerability and an honesty and an almost frantic desire to impart to us, before he can no longer, his manic mantras, his obsessive treatises and his biting and blisteringly honest bons mots that are actually really enlightening life lessons." -- Alan Cumming, The New York Times Book Review "[Waters is] an indefatigable coiner of droll one-liners . . . Whether he likes it or not, [Waters] is a Great American Institution. Or maybe he belongs in an institution. Either way, we wouldn't want to be without him." -- Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times "In Mr. Know-It-All , the curtain is pulled back and Waters' life, a multi-decade exercise in adaptability, perseverance and ceaseless hustle, is revealed. The essays are hyper-driven with the caloric burn of nervous energy . . . Full of insight and scrappy, hard-earned smarts." -- Henry Rollins, Los Angeles Times "That this Prince of Puke has become an accidental darling of American cinema and letters--an institution, however depraved--may be a dirty shame to [Waters], but it's a blessing for the rest of us." -- Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post "On a line-by-line basis, [ Mr. Know-It-All ] always sparkles" -- Katie Rife, The A.V. Club "[ Mr. Know-It-All ] is outrageous and, in ways that only the man who unleashed Pink Flamingos on an unsuspecting public could get away with, sentimental. It peers into the future with eyes both delightful and decadent, and looks backward with a nostalgia for things many of us never knew we missed . . . A delicious, deranged blend that may not be for everybody, and that's just fine with [Waters]." -- Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun "There's no denying that Waters is a whip-smart . . . , funny, multitalented and unique cultural icon." -- Alice Cary, Bookpage "An exuberantly transgressive American filmmaker gets down, dirty, and weird about life, art, and career . . . Comic and rude but always compulsively readable, Waters demonstrates that he is not only first among Filth Elders; he is also a keen observer of American culture. Wickedly smart and consistently laugh-out-loud funny." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Nothing can squelch [John Waters'] outrageous imagination . . . If you don't laugh loud and often, check your pulse, then your breath on a mirror." -- Ray Olson, Booklist "Endlessly entertaining . . . Waters's musings are as funny and eccentric as his films; longtime fans will be delighted with the treasure trove of insights into his brilliant oeuvre." -- Publishers Weekly, "An exuberantly transgressive American filmmaker gets down, dirty, and weird about life, art, and career . . . Comic and rude but always compulsively readable, Waters demonstrates that he is not only first among Filth Elders; he is also a keen observer of American culture. Wickedly smart and consistently laugh-out-loud funny." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Nothing can squelch [John Waters'] outrageous imagination . . . If you don't laugh loud and often, check your pulse, then your breath on a mirror." --Ray Olson, Booklist "Endlessly entertaining . . . Waters's musings are as funny and eccentric as his films; longtime fans will be delighted with the treasure trove of insights into his brilliant oeuvre." -- Publishers Weekly, "That John Waters is a national treasure is a surety. Period. Thank you and good night . . . [ Mr. Know-It- All] shows a vulnerability and an honesty and an almost frantic desire to impart to us, before he can no longer, his manic mantras, his obsessive treatises and his biting and blisteringly honest bons mots that are actually really enlightening life lessons." -- Alan Cumming, The New York Times Book Review "[Waters is] an indefatigable coiner of droll one-liners . . . Whether he likes it or not, [Waters] is a Great American Institution. Or maybe he belongs in an institution. Either way, we wouldn't want to be without him." -- Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times "In Mr. Know-It-All , the curtain is pulled back and Waters' life, a multi-decade exercise in adaptability, perseverance and ceaseless hustle, is revealed. The essays are hyper-driven with the caloric burn of nervous energy . . . Full of insight and scrappy, hard-earned smarts." -- Henry Rollins, Los Angeles Times "That this Prince of Puke has become an accidental darling of American cinema and letters--an institution, however depraved--may be a dirty shame to [Waters], but it's a blessing for the rest of us." -- Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post "On a line-by-line basis, [ Mr. Know-It-All ] always sparkles" -- Katie Rife, The A.V. Club "[ Mr. Know-It-All ] is outrageous and, in ways that only the man who unleashed Pink Flamingos on an unsuspecting public could get away with, sentimental. It peers into the future with eyes both delightful and decadent, and looks backward with a nostalgia for things many of us never knew we missed . . . A delicious, deranged blend that may not be for everybody, and that's just fine with [Waters]. For the rest of us, however, tarnish has never looked so good." -- Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun "There's no denying that Waters is a whip-smart . . . , funny, multitalented and unique cultural icon." -- Alice Cary, Bookpage "An exuberantly transgressive American filmmaker gets down, dirty, and weird about life, art, and career . . . Comic and rude but always compulsively readable, Waters demonstrates that he is not only first among Filth Elders; he is also a keen observer of American culture. Wickedly smart and consistently laugh-out-loud funny." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Nothing can squelch [John Waters'] outrageous imagination . . . If you don't laugh loud and often, check your pulse, then your breath on a mirror." -- Ray Olson, Booklist "Endlessly entertaining . . . Waters's musings are as funny and eccentric as his films; longtime fans will be delighted with the treasure trove of insights into his brilliant oeuvre." -- Publishers Weekly
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-057165
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