{"product_id":"mr-know-it-all-the-tarnished-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder-signed-copies","title":"Mr Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder - SIGNED COPIES","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rghtrd.co\/boty19ukblog\"\u003eRough Trade Books of the Year 2019 No. 9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo 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 \u003ci\u003ePink Flamingos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolyester\u003c\/i\u003e, the original \u003ci\u003eHairspray\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCry-Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Dirty Shame\u003c\/i\u003e, is one of the world's great sophisticates, and in \u003ci\u003eMr. Know-It-All\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudded with cameos of Waters's stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from Waters's personal collection, \u003ci\u003eMr. Know-It-All\u003c\/i\u003e is Waters's most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book - another instant Waters classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eCarsick\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a portrait not just of America's desolate freeway nodes - though they're brilliantly evoked - but of American fame itself' \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"corsair","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50453352743243,"sku":"1074248","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/563999f8-5915-4fbd-b4f3-4422d1e3dcef_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727170995","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/mr-know-it-all-the-tarnished-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder-signed-copies","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}