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.
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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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