Christopher Hitchens: Mortality | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781455502769 | Mortality | Christopher Hitchens | Taschenbuch | 108 S. | Englisch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Biographien
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	108 S.
ISBN-13:	9781455502769
ISBN-10:	1455502766
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hitchens, Christopher
Hersteller:	Grand Central Publishing
Maße:	190 x 126 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Christopher Hitchens
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.05.2014
Gewicht:	0,105 kg

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