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Christopher Hitchens

Mortality

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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.
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78 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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    Not a feel-good book about your impending death, but a dont-feel-alone.

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    Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.
  • Rodrigo Rangel Gutiérrezhas quoted3 years ago
    believer dies than that an atheist does
  • Rodrigo Rangel Gutiérrezhas quoted3 years ago
    If I convert it’s because it’s better that a

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