Mortality (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Grand Central Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	September 2012
Authors:	Christopher Hitchens
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	104
ISBN-13:	978-1-4555-0275-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4555-0275-8
Barcode:	9781455502752

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Sun, 1 Aug 2021 | Review by: Lelane S.

A naked view of a great mind at the end of an extraordinary and fascinating life. The raw honesty and brutal self-reflection so openly available to read, almost seems obscene... If such a thing is to be claimed, this man and his intellectual courage (on display so openly in these last pages) was nothing short than a 'gift' to humanity.

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