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Tracy Turnblad, a spunky, full-figured Baltimore teen, wants nothing more than to be a featured dancer on The Corny Collins Show. So when she gets chosen to be on the air, it seems like all her dreams are about to come true. But when she and...
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Hairspray
A feel-good fable and an enduring critique of conformity told with true John Waters flair.
A feel-good fable and an enduring critique of conformity told with true John Waters flair.
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Tracy Turnblad, a spunky, full-figured Baltimore teen, wants nothing more than to be a featured dancer on The Corny Collins Show. So when she gets chosen to be on the air, it seems like all her dreams are about to come true.
But when she and some of the Black cast of the show try to integrate the segregated dancing, things take on a life of their own.
A sweet, hopeful parable about the dangers of conformity and segregation, Hairspray is perhaps the one optimistic entry in John Waters' shocking and delightfully deranged oeuvre. Both a clear-eyed social critique and a celebration of the dizzying aesthetics of Baltimore in the early 1960s, this is another, softer side to the essential John Waters.
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ISBN: 9781250371294
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 November 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Picador USA
Illustration: 18 Black-and-White Images in Text
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Width: 127.0mm
Height: 191.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 128
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About the Author
John Waters is a writer, a film director, an actor, and a visual artist best known for his films, including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Serial Mom. He is the author of the national bestsellers Role Models, Carsick, and Mr. Know-It-All. His spoken-word shows This Filthy World, False Negative, End of the World, and A John Waters Christmas continue to be performed around the world. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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