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Publisher: Canongate
Author: Cookie Mueller
ISBN: 9781838858483
Year: 2022
Format: Paperback
Non fiction, Memoir
Walking Through Clear Water...
by
Cookie Mueller
Walking Through Clear Water... by
Cookie Mueller
Reviews
"A how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails … a live corrective to conformity, conservatism and cruelty"
Olivia Laing
Summary
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.