Research Catalog
The secret life : three true stories
- Title
- The secret life : three true stories / Andrew O'Hagan.
- Author
- O'Hagan, Andrew, 1968-
- Publication
- London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-4776 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- ix, 260 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In the Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen-and unforgettable-consequences. 'The Invention of Ronnie Pinn' finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey into the deep web's darkest realms. And 'The Satoshi Affair' chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth. What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes, to borrow a phrase from the tech world, 'disrupted'? Perhaps it takes a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.
- Uniform Title
- Essays Selections.
- Alternative Title
- Essays
- Subject
- Contents
- Ghosting -- The invention of Ronald Pinn -- The Satoshi affair.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-4776
- ISBN
- 9780571335848
- 0571335845
- OCLC
- 993318305
- Author
- O'Hagan, Andrew, 1968- author.
- Title
- The secret life : three true stories / Andrew O'Hagan.
- Publisher
- London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780571335879
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-4776