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. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of Our Fathers, Be Near Me, and The Illuminations, among other books. He lives in London.
[O'Hagan] explores 'the wild west of the Internet' with incisive
vigor in The Secret Life . . . Dizzying and gripping . . . The
Secret Life cunningly alights on ways that cyber-deceptions and
flawed personalities can collide and combust. --Michael Upchurch,
Chicago Tribune A riveting book . . . Deeply moving . . . Poignant
. . . Unexpectedly heartbreaking . . . To judge from Mr. O'Hagan's
arresting trio of portraits, society's online Twilight Zone
inspires both despair and humanity--often at the cost of truth and
trust. --Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street JournalFascinating . .
. O'Hagan asks probing questions about the meaning and construct of
identity in the digital age. Smart and engaging, The Secret Life
will change the way you see life on the internet. --Sadie
Trombetta, BustleThree fascinating strange-but-true tales of the
Internet age. The first--O'Hagan's hilariously frank account of his
short-lived career as Julian Assange's ghostwriter--is worth the
price of admission. --Ash Carter, Esquire
O'Hagan, perhaps best known as a fiction writer, transports a
novelist's eye for narrative to his journalistic assignments . . .
Aside from his subjects' binary backdrops, their secret lives reek
as much of Dostoyevsky or Freud as of cyberspace . . . O'Hagan's
stories [are] gripping reads . . . a wormy compost of spooks,
doubles, neurotic agendas, and artfulness. --Laura Kipnis,
Bookforum 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)Andrew O'Hagan
is one of my favorite writers . . . [These essays] are a joy to
read and perhaps O'Hagan described them best, calling them
'nonfiction thrillers.' --Library Journal
Three intriguing pieces of journalism about the new threats of a
digital age . . . [O'Hagan is] razor-sharp. --Kirkus ReviewsO'Hagan
is an immensely engaging writer: wry and witty, and insightful . .
. despite their technological background, these are ultimately
human stories and O'Hagan tells them superbly. --Ian Critchley,
Sunday TimesAltogether, The Secret Life is nothing less than an
affirmation that using words well still matters, even now. --David
Sexton, Evening StandardIt is a tribute to O'Hagan's quiet and
effective betrayal of Assange that the reader's ambivalence towards
the Wikileaker does not prevent the reader's gradual antipathy.
--David Aaronovitch, The TimesO'Hagan [is] a vivid and meticulous
writer . . . at the core of this excellent collection we glimpse
the unbridgeable difference between the real and the invented.
--Andrew Anthony, ObserverO'Hagan's prose is always a delight. 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. This is not just a good book, but a necessary
one. --Stuart Kelly, Scotland on SundayThe theme is identity in the
digital age and [O'Hagan's] three subjects are exquisitely fit for
purpose . . . Thrilling. --Esquire (UK)
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