Andrew O'Hagan (International) assertion Andrew O'Hagan i(11866728 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 The Satoshi Affair Andrew O'Hagan , 2017 single work biography
— Appears in: The Secret Life : Three True Stories 2017;
1 The Invention of Ronald Pinn Andrew O'Hagan , 2017 single work biography
— Appears in: The Secret Life : Three True Stories 2017;
1 Ghosting Andrew O'Hagan , 2017 single work biography
— Appears in: The Secret Life : Three True Stories 2017;
1 1 y separately published work icon The Secret Life : Three True Stories Andrew O'Hagan , London : Faber , 2017 11866794 2017 selected work biography

'Examining three lives - Julian Assange, Craig Wright, the Australian behind the Bitcoin inventor 'Satoshi Nakamoto', and Ronald Pinn, an online character O'Hagan created - he explores identity, secrecy, and the relationship between the individual, the state, and technology.

'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. ' (Publication Summary)

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