Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black

Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black
Cookie Mueller, Olivia Laing
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 432pg
4 Aug 2022 UK
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9781838858483
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Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only storycollection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist CookieMueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, high-reward life in glorious technicolour, frombecoming a part of John Waters' legendary acting troupe to becoming amother, from describing the hedonism of 1980s New York to critiquing thegovernment' s dire response to the AIDS epidemic. Cookie' s voice is fresh,wise, freewheeling and unafraid of darkness. Like a lysergic Nora Ephron,she is the candid flipside to the idealistic hippie dream. Whether good, bad orugly, her stories are fiercely entertaining and reliably honest. Featuring a new introduction by Olivia Laing, this edition collects Mueller' sstories, columns and writings, and presents a testament to a life livedcourageously and well. ' A how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism and cruelty' - OLIVIA LAING
A how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism and cruelty -- OLIVIA LAING Cookie Mueller wrote like a lunatic Uncle Remus - spinning little stories from Hell that will make any reader laugh out loud. She was a writer, a mother, an outlaw, an actress, a fashion designer, a go-go dancer, a witch doctor, an art-hag and, above all, a goddess. Boy, do I miss that girl -- JOHN WATERS People fall in love with Cookie when they read her . . . She was a matchless beautician of the word -- RICHARD HELL Utterly fearless and stunning -- Steven Long * * The Crack Magazine * *
Cookie Mueller (1949-1989), nee Dorothy Karen Mueller, played leading roles in John Waters' s Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living and Multiple Maniacs. She wrote for the East Village Eye and Details Magazine, performed in a series of plays by Gary Indiana and wrote numerous stories that would only be published posthumously. She died in New York City of AIDS-related complications at age 40.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781838858483
Published: 4 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Canons
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 287g
Pages: 432

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