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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. Written by christopher hitchens, audiobook narrated by nicholas ball. He has written a number of other books, including a book. Mortality by christopher hitchens is the story of the writer and political analysts life during the last nineteen months of his life after he was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. Just to give some elementary quotations, it is stated in the book of philippians, 4. Mortality audiobook by christopher hitchens 9781619691896. Sep 02, 2012 mortality is a slender volume or, to use the mot that he loved to deploy, feuilleton consisting of the seven dispatches he sent in to vanity fair magazine from tumorville. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
Aug 31, 2012 this last sad and oddly inspiring book comes with an introduction by his editor at vanity fair, graydon carter and an afterword by his wife carol blue. In the tradition of bertrand russells why i am not a christian and sam harris recent bestseller, the end of faith, christopher hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. Pdf letters to a young contrarian book by christopher. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 141 pages and is available in paperback format. Its as if his own body has become a subject of observation and investigation. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
Christopher hitchens audio books, best sellers, author bio. As he would later write in the first of a series of awardwinning columns for vanity fair, he suddenly found. Britishamerican journalist, writer and literary critic christopher hitchens was on a book tour in 2010 when he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. At the time, christopher hitchens was just launching an american book tour and was very excited and enthused about it. While its sad, yes, to have lost christopher hitchens, mortality isnt the depressing read you might imagine. Wodehouse, was giving a nononsense talk to some of us one evening. 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. In his 2010 memoir, hitch22, christopher hitchens wrote of wanting to. Buy a cheap copy of mortality book by christopher hitchens.
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