Mortality - Couverture souple

Hitchens, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848879237 ISBN 13 : 9781848879232

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2013

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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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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and Visiting Professor in liberal studies at the New School in New York. He was named one of the world's 'Top 100 Public Intellectuals' by Foreign Policy and Prospect. His books include Love, Poverty & War and Blood, Class & Empire. Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and God Is Not Great were published by Atlantic Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848879237
• ISBN 13: 9781848879232
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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