Fame: The Hijacking of Reality [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Biography &Amp; Autobiography)
  • Author:  Bateman, Justine
  • Author:  Bateman, Justine
  • ISBN-10:  1617756601
  • ISBN-10:  1617756601
  • ISBN-13:  9781617756603
  • ISBN-13:  9781617756603
  • Publisher:  Akashic Books, Ltd.
  • Publisher:  Akashic Books, Ltd.
  • Pages:  208
  • Pages:  208
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2018
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2018
  • SKU:  1617756601-11-SPLV
  • SKU:  1617756601-11-SPLV
  • Item ID: 101340444
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Wholly riveting.
--New York Times Book Review

Justine Bateman was famous before selfies replaced autographs, and bags of fan mail gave way to Twitter shitstorms. And here's the good news: she took notes along the way. Justine steps through the looking glass of her own celebrity, shatters it, and pieces together, beyond the shards and splinters, a reflection of her true self. The transformation is breathtaking. Revelatory and raucous, fascinating and frightening,Fameis a hell of a ride.
--Michael J. Fox,actor, author ofA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future

In a new book,Fame: The Hijacking of Reality, the two-time Emmy nominee takes a raw look at the culture of celebrity, reflecting on her stardom at its dizzying peak--and the 'disconcerting' feeling as it began to fade.
--People Magazine

ABook Soup(Los Angeles, CA) best seller, October 1521, 2018

As the titleFame: The Hijacking of Realitymore than implies, this is a book about the complicated aspects of all things fame.
--Vanity Fair

Bateman digs into the out-of-control nature of being famous, its psychological aftermath and why we all can't get enough of it.
--New York Post

TheFamily Tiesalum has written the rawest, bleakest book on fame you're ever likely to read. Bateman's close-up of the celeb experience features vivid encounters with misogyny, painful meditations on aging in Hollywood, and no shortage of theses on social media's wrath.
--Entertainment Weekly

Bateman addresses the reader directly, pouring out her thoughts in a rapid-fire, conversational style. (Hunter S. Thompson is saluted in the acknowledgments.)...But her jittery delivery suits the material--the manic sugar high of celebrity and its inevitable crash. Bateman takes the reader through her entire fame cycle, from TV megastar, whose first movie role was alongside Julia Rol)

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