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Mortality Hardback - 2012

by Christopher Hitchens

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Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of the world's most celebrated writers.

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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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  • Title Mortality
  • Author Christopher Hitchens
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition. F
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Twelve, New York City, NY
  • Publication date 2012-09-01
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9781455502752 / 1455502758
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Death, Authors, American
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012014024
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2012, Page 10
  • Kirkus Best Nonfiction, 12/01/2012, Page 19
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2012, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview, 08/15/2012, Page 22
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/02/2012, Page 1
  • People Weekly, 09/17/2012, Page 52
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2012, Page 51
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/05/2012, Page 33
  • Shelf Awareness, 09/14/2012, Page 0

About the author

Christopher Hitchens was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Slate, and the Atlantic, and the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Orwell. He also wrote the international bestsellers god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died in December 2011.
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