EAN: 9781838952235

HITCHENS CHRISTOPHER MORTALITY

A Sunday Times Book of The Year A Mail on Sunday Book of The Year An Independent Book of The
Year A The Times Book of The Year  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
etiquette  and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent
confrontation with mortality  Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a
contemporary cipher of suffering.

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