# Role Models

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- Book: [Role Models](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-waters/role-models) ([Role Models.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-waters/role-models.md))
- Authors: [John Waters](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-waters)
- Publisher: corsair
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7211-616-1
- Published: 2014-10-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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...