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Christopher Hitchens - Mortality - Unabridged --------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist...............: Christopher Hitchens Album................: Mortality - Unabridged Genre................: Audiobook Source...............: CD Year.................: 2012 Codec................: LAME 3.92 Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III Quality..............: , (avg. bitrate: 96kbps) Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mortality-christopher-hitchens/1108616430 Playing Time.........: 02:11:00 Total Size...........: 90.63 MB 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. The New York Times Book Review The first seven chapters are, like virtually everything [Hitchens] wrote over his long, distinguished career, diamond-hard and brilliant. An eighth and final chapter consistsàof unfinished "fragmentary jottings" that he wrote in his terminal days in the critical-care unit of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. They're vivid, heart-wrenching and hauntingùmessages in a bottle tossed from the deck of a sinking ship as its captain, reeling in agony and fighting through the fog of morphine, struggles to keep his engines goingà Being in Christopher's company was rarely sobering, but always exhilarating. It is, however, sobering and grief-inducing to read this brave and harrowing account of his "year of living dyingly" in the grip of the alien that succeeded where none of his debate opponents had in bringing him down. ùChristopher Buckley Publishers Weekly Diagnosed with the esophageal cancer to which he eventually succumbed in December 2011, cultural critic Hitchens found himself a finalist in the race of life, and in his typically unflinching and bold manner, he candidly shares his thoughts about his suffering, the etiquette of illness and wellness, and religion in this stark and powerful memoir. Commenting on the persistent metaphor of battle that doctors and friends use to describe his life with cancer (most of this book was published in Vanity Fair), Hitchens mightily challenges this image, for ôwhen you sit in a room... and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or donÆt read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent soldier is the very last one that will occur to you.ö As a result of his various treatments, Hitchens begins to lose his voice, which, given his life as public gadfly through writing and speeches, devastates him. ôWhat do I hope for? If not a cure, then a remission. And what do I want back? In the most beautiful apposition of two of the simplest words in our language: the freedom of speech.ö HitchensÆs powerful voice compels us to consider carefully the small measures by which we live every day and to cherish them. Product Details ISBN-13: 9781455502752 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication date: 9/4/2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sharing Widget |
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