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Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black Cookie Mueller

Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black By Cookie Mueller

Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

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Summary

A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction

Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black Summary

Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories by Cookie Mueller

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller, published in the UK for the first time.

Mueller chronicles her high-risk, high-reward life in glorious technicolour, from becoming a part of John Waters' legendary acting troupe to becoming a mother, from describing the hedonism of 1980s New York to critiquing the government'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 or ugly, her stories are fiercely entertaining and reliably honest.

Featuring a new introduction by Olivia Laing, this edition collects Mueller's stories, columns and writings, and presents a testament to a life lived courageously and well.

Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black Reviews

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 * *

About Cookie Mueller

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.

Table of Contents

'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

Additional information

NGR9781838858483
9781838858483
1838858482
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories by Cookie Mueller
Cookie Mueller
Canons
New
Paperback
Canongate Books
20220804
432
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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