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On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis.
Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. By turns personal and philosophical, Hitchens embraces the full panoply of human emotions as cancer invades his body and compels him to grapple with the enigma of death.
MORTALITY is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.

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"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 "
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The world's greatest contrarian confronts his own death in this brave and unforgettable book.

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  • PublisherTwelve
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 1455522554
  • ISBN 13 9781455522552
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages134
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