Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
- ISBN-10
- 0525561102
- ISBN-13
- 9780525561101
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Viking
- Author
- John Hodgman
Description
Both unflinchingly funny and deeply heartfelt, MEDALLION STATUS is a hilarious, thoughtful examination of status, fame, and identity. It s about the weird trauma that comes with success that feels unseemly to discuss (because who will sympathise with you?); about the addiction to status that sometimes (always) follows success; and about the way we all deal with those moments in public and private life when we realise we don t quite have it anymore.
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