Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a columnist for Slate. He was the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as his international bestseller and National Book Award nominee, god Is Not Great. His memoir, Hitch-22, was nominated for the Orwell Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
His unworldly fluency never deserted him, his commitment was
passionate, and he never deserted his trade. He was the consummate
writer, the brilliant friend. In Walter Pater's famous phrase, he
burned 'with this hard gem-like flame.' Right to the end.
*Ian McEwan*
[Hitchens's] voice remains civilised, searching and ready to
vanquish all his enemies
*Colm Tóbín*
A trenchant, learned, iconoclastic and splendidly witty commentator
on public life and, as here, on his own private triumphs and
travails... unremittingly elegant, a master of graceful prose
*John Banville*
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens is an inspiring, astonishingly
candid and ultimately heartbreaking account of one man's battle
with cancer. And not just any man... a brilliant contrary mind,
wonderful writer, world-class debater and extremely dangerous
luncher. This book, featuring the articles he wrote for Vanity Fair
while he was dying, will make you laugh, fume and cry in equal
measure.
*Mail on Sunday Books of the Year*
Characteristic of his elegant wit: philosophical, literary, ironic,
sardonic, reflective and resentful
*The Times*
Hitchens's account of his climb to extinction is Larkinesque, and
not only because his sentences stay in the mind as firmly as good
poetry.
*Literary Review*
Hitchens's traditional strengths - his mastery of irony, his range
of reference, his contempt for euphemism - are all in evidence here
but there is a timeless, aphoristic quality to these essays that
distinguishes them from his writings on politics and
literature.
*New Statesman*
Apart from the obvious sense of denoument, what makes [Hitchens's]
last seven essays so potent... is their struggle towards the
shattering of illusion... The true struggle of his last writings is
to remain himself, deep in the country of the ill, for as long as
he can.
*Observer*
Witty, thoughtful and refreshingly irritable
*Evening Standard*
Shocking, intimate and astute, Mortality is a memoir like no
other
*Irish Independent*
His unworldly fluency never deserted him, his commitment was
passionate, and he never deserted his trade. He was the consummate
writer, the brilliant friend. In Walter Pater's famous phrase, he
burned 'with this hard gem-like flame.' Right to the end. -- Ian
McEwan
[Hitchens's] voice remains civilised, searching and ready to
vanquish all his enemies -- Colm Tobin
A trenchant, learned, iconoclastic and splendidly witty commentator
on public life and, as here, on his own private triumphs and
travails... unremittingly elegant, a master of graceful prose --
John Banville
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens is an inspiring,
astonishingly candid and ultimately heartbreaking account of one
man's battle with cancer. And not just any man... a brilliant
contrary mind, wonderful writer, world-class debater and extremely
dangerous luncher. This book, featuring the articles he wrote for
Vanity Fair while he was dying, will make you laugh, fume
and cry in equal measure. -- Piers Morgan * Mail on Sunday Books of
the Year *
Characteristic of his elegant wit: philosophical, literary, ironic,
sardonic, reflective and resentful * The Times *
Hitchens's account of his climb to extinction is Larkinesque, and
not only because his sentences stay in the mind as firmly as good
poetry. * Literary Review *
Hitchens's traditional strengths - his mastery of irony, his range
of reference, his contempt for euphemism - are all in evidence here
but there is a timeless, aphoristic quality to these essays that
distinguishes them from his writings on politics and literature. *
New Statesman *
Apart from the obvious sense of denoument, what makes [Hitchens's]
last seven essays so potent... is their struggle towards the
shattering of illusion... The true struggle of his last writings is
to remain himself, deep in the country of the ill, for as long as
he can. * Observer *
Witty, thoughtful and refreshingly irritable * Evening Standard
*
Shocking, intimate and astute, Mortality is a memoir like no
other * Irish Independent *
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