Secret Life - 9781250192790

Award-winning essayist and novelist Andrew OÆHagan presents a trio of reports exploring the idea of identity on the Internetùtrue, false, and in betweenùwhere your virtual self takes on a life of its own outside of reality. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year ò One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Book of Essays and Literary Criticism ò One of Chicago Reader's Books We CanÆt Wait to Read in the Rest of 2017 The Secret Life issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL. ôGhostingö introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography OÆHagan agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseenùand unforgettableùconsequences. ôThe Invention of Ronnie Pinnö finds him using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the WebÆs darkest realms. And ôThe Satoshi Affairö chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamotoùand who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth. These fascinating pieces take us to the weirder fringes of life in a digital world while also casting light on our shared predicaments. What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes, to borrow a term from the tech world, ôdisruptedö? The Secret Life shows us that it might take a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.

• | Author: Andrew O'Hagan
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Oct 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Collections
• | ISBN-10: 125019279X
• | ISBN-13: 9781250192790