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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 o

Carsick

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 12 May 2015
      ISBN-13 9780374535452
      978-0374535452
      ISBN-10 0374535450
      Also in:
      Travel and holiday guides Travel writing

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 o

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