The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374277915 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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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, the essayist and novelist Andrew O’Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL. “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 deep into the Web’s darkest realms. The Internet shorthand IRL“in real life”now seems naïve. A Top 10 Book of Essays & Literary Criticism for Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly Books We Can’t Wait to Read in the Rest of 2017, Chicago ReaderThe slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes,
This is not just a good book, but a necessary one." Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday"The theme is identity in the digital age and O'Hagan's three subjects are exquisitely fit for purpose Thrilling." Esquire. The cadence of his sentences, the way in which he balances extension and brevity, the unspooling and the reeling in, is a masterclass in the art of prose. "Splendid O'Hagan's grasp of storytelling is prodigious, and the ending of his essay on Pinn is a particularly inspired, even moving, piece of writing. Taken as a whole, this is an unmissable collection of up-to-the-moment insights about life in our digital era." Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Three intriguing pieces of journalism about the new threats of a digital age O'Hagan is razor-sharp." Kirkus Reviews"O'Hagan is an immensely engaging writer: wry and witty, and insightful despite their technological background, these are ultimately human stories and O'Hagan tel
M. . Andrew O’Hagan is one of Britain’s most exciting and serious contemporary writers. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times, was voted one of Granta’s 2003 Best of Young British Novelists, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the E. He lives in London. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of Our Fathers, Be Near Me
Fascinating A fascinating account of the chaotic attempt by Julian Assange to write his autobiography. We are in the period before Julian took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy but nevertheless was forced to wear an electronic tag and sign in each day at the local police station while he fought extradition to Sweden on rape allegations.His ghost writer, Andrew O'Hagan, put together a 70,000 word draft compiled from his visits and interviews with the WikiLeaks entrepreneur despite Julian's constant procrastination over many months