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Carsick

by Waters, John, 1946-

Format: Print Book 2014
Availability: Available at 15 Libraries 15 of 15 copies

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Andrew Bayne Memorial Library Nonfiction 791.4 Wate
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Bethel Park Public Library Nonfiction 92 WATERS John
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Brentwood Library Nonfiction 791.4302 Waters
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CLP - East Liberty Non-Fiction Collection PN1998.3.W38 A3 2014
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CLP - Woods Run Non-Fiction Collection PN1998.3.W38 A3 2014
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Community Library of Allegheny Valley - Harrison Non Fiction 791.43 WATERS
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Community Library of Castle Shannon Biography 92 WATERS John
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Green Tree Public Library Adult Nonfiction 791.4302 WAT
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Monroeville Public Library Non-fiction 791.4302 WATERS
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Moon Township Public Library Non-Fiction 791.4 WATERS
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Mt. Lebanon Public Library Non-Fiction 791.4302 WATERS John Wat
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Northern Tier Regional Library Biography BIO WATERS
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Sewickley Public Library Biography B WATERS 2014
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Shaler North Hills Library Non-Fiction 791.43 W
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Summary

Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo.

John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?

Before he leaves for this bizarre adventure, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road? His real-life rides include a gentle eighty-one-year-old farmer who is convinced Waters is a hobo, an indie band on tour, and the perverse filmmaker's unexpected hero: a young, sandy-haired Republican in a Corvette.

Laced with subversive humor and warm intelligence, Carsick is an unforgettable vacation with a wickedly funny companion--and a celebration of America's weird, astonishing, and generous citizenry.

Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "*Starred Review* There's nothing cheaper, ungenerous about Waters, the Pope of Trash (or Filth, or both). His new book is actually three (clap!), three (clap!), three books in one! All are based on the pitch he sold his publisher about hitchhiking from his home in Baltimore to his home in San Francisco. Oh, he knew it was insane I'm sixty-six years old, for chrissake and so wrote it up in advance, just in case, once imagining The Best That Could Happen, then again envisioning The Worst That Could Happen. Because he is, after all, John Pink Flamingos Waters, both fictional trips are rather similar in terms of weirdness and even scabrousness, at least in the eyes of those who aren't J PF W. Fortunately, except for a handful of incidents (well, maybe more) that body-slam the boundaries of scatological toleration, both are pretty constantly hilarious and, when he somehow encounters such figures from his past as Edith Massey (the Egg Lady in PF) and 1980s gay porn star Johnny Davenport (whom Waters never knew, casually or biblically alas!), sentimental. The real trip, hardly as ludicrous as the preceding fictions, takes longer, involves more drivers, and has Waters growing in admiration for the regular but far from colorless! people who pick him up, especially the married guys who praise their wives to the skies. Travel uh, hitchhiking book of the year?--Olson, Ray Copyright 2014 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "The illustrious director of Hairspray, Cry Baby, and Pink Flamingoes embarked on a cross-country hitchhiking journey in 2012. This, Waters's seventh book, is a travelogue of his experiences bumming rides all the way from his home in Baltimore to his apartment in San Francisco. Waters idiosyncratically cuts to the core of American diversity, finding the good (and bad) in any situation with biting wit. The unlikely friendship Waters forms with a young Republican politician is an unexpected twist, and a timely tale of bromance in the midst of hardship. If a dyed-in-the-wool conservative and the pope of Trash can have an adventure in Reno together, aren't all things still possible in this world? But for Waters aficionados, the best parts of this enchanting narrative aren't the ones that actually happened. Fans will delight in the two novellas, with Waters at his campiest and most ludicrous, that precede the nonfiction third act. Presenting the best- and worst-case scenarios for modern hitchhiking as only Waters can, the narratives range from encounters with a pleasant group of marijuana smugglers and Edith Massey, to a harrowing imprisonment in Kansas and traumatic fan meeting. Waters devotees take note: this is required reading. Agent: Bill Clegg, William Morris Endeavor. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Additional Information
Subjects Waters, John, -- 1946- -- Travel -- United States.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Hitchhiking -- United States.
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Humor.
Publisher New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2014
Edition First edition.
Other Titles Car sick
Language English
Notes "John Waters hitchhikes across America"--Jacket.
Description 322 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN 9780374298630 (hbk.)
0374298637 (hbk.)
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