Mortality - Softcover

Hitchens, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145552347X ISBN 13: 9781455523474

Publisher: Twelve, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-04 Pages: 128 Language: English Publisher: Grand Central Publishing The worlds greatest contrarian confronts his own death in this brave and unforgettable book.During the US book tour for his memoir. Hitch-22. Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces. he was being deported from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady. Over the next year he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment. enduring catastrophic levels of suffering and eventually losing the ability to speak.Mortality is the most meditative collection of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease. an examination of cancer etiquett...

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Product Description:

Christopher Hitchens was on a book tour for his memoir Hitch-22 when he discovered he had cancer of the esophagus, an episode described with characteristic wit and candor in a series of articles he wrote for Vanity Fair. In these essays, for which Hitchens was given the National Magazine Award, he describes his struggle not only with the disease but with its meaning to his friends and supporters, as well as his critics and detractors.
"Both elegant and moving, these columns display insight and bravery," wrote the National Magazine Award judges. "Christopher Hitchens is the best writer in the worst of times, and we are grateful for him."

Review:

"If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him."--Ian McEwan

"The business and pleasure sides of Mr. Hitchens's personality can made him seem, whether you agree with him or not, among the most purely alive people on the planet."--Dwight Garner, "New York Times"

"Christopher Hitchens, the polemical polymath, is to modern American discourse what Lenny Bruce was to comedy. He changed the game, and in so doing forced us to examine our core beliefs. "--Timothy Egan, "New York Times"

"Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English Language."--Christopher Bukcley

"As contemptuous, digressive, righteous, and riotously funny as the rest of the author's incessant output, this memoir is an effective coming-of-age story, regardless of what one may think of the resulting adult . . . Hitchens paints a credible and even affecting self-portrait."-- "The New Yorker" on "Hitch-22"

"Being able to shape-change, shed skins, sit on the hillside overlooking suburbia like a coyote, Hitchens represents a dying breed of public intellectual whose voice matters precisely because it can't be easily pigeonholed or ignored."--Douglas Brinkley, "Los Angeles Times"

"Few writers can match Hitchens's cerebral pyrotechnics. Fewer still can emulate his punch as an intellectual character assassin. It is hard not to admire the sheer virtuosity of his prose...With Hitchens one simply goes along for the ride. The destination hardly matters."--Ed Luce, "Financial Times"

"Hitch-22 is among the loveliest paeans to the dearness of one's friends . . . I've ever read. The business and pleasure sides of Mr. Hitchens's personality can make him seem, whether you agree with him or not, among the most purely alive people on the planet."-- "The New York Times" on" Hitch-22" "Dwight Garner "

"In this frank, often wickedly funny account, Hitchens traces his evolution as a fiercely independent thinker and enemy of people who are convinced of their absolute certainty ... Revealing and riveting."-- "Kirkus" on "Hitch-22"

" ... a complex portrait of a public intellectual."-- "The Wall Street Journal "on" Hitch-22" "Alexandra Alter "

About this edition

• Publisher: Twelve
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 145552347X
• ISBN 13: 9781455523474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160