Mortality (eBook)

Christopher Hitchens (Autor)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
128 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-0-85789-765-7 (ISBN)

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The world's greatest contrarian confronts his own death in this brave and unforgettable book. During the American book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest. 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 experienced the full force of modern cancer treatment. Mortality is 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 moving personal account of illness, Hitchens confronts his own death - and he is combative and dignified, eloquent and witty to the very last.

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.

Autor

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a columnist for Slate. He was the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as his international bestseller and National Book Award nominee, god Is Not Great. His memoir, Hitch-22, was nominated for the Orwell Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2012
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: abolition of liberty • agnosticism • And Yet • AN Wilson • Arguably • Atheism • Atheist • Atlantic • Atlantic Monthly • barack obama • Belief • biblical cristism • blood class and empire • Blood, Class and Empire • Che Guevara • Christianity • christoper hitchens books • clive james • Cultural Amnesia • Dawkins • Dickens • dickensl • Essay • Essays • George Orwell • Gertrude Bell • god is Not Great • Gore Vidal • Hezbollah • Hillary Clinton • History • Hitch-22 • hitchens • Humour • Ian Fleming • Iran • Islam • Judaism • Literature • love poverty and war • Love, Poverty and War • Makeover • Martin Amis • missionary position • Mortality • New Statesman • No One Left to Lie to • Orhan Pamuk • Orwell • Patriotism • Political • political books • Politics • politics books • Religion • religion for athiests • religion poltics • Religious • religious books • Richard Dawkins • Salman Rushdie • self-improvement • slate • The Abolition of Liberty • The Missionary Position • Theology • The Trial of Henry Kissinger • The War Against Cliche • Thomas Paine's Rights of Man • trial of henry kissinger • United States Essays 1952-92 • VICE • war against cliche
• ISBN-10: 0-85789-765-9 / 0857897659
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85789-765-7 / 9780857897657