Mortality
分類: 图书,进口原版,Biographies & Memoirs（传记与自传）,Memoirs（自传）,
品牌: Christopher Hitchens
基本信息出版社:Twelve (2012年9月4日)平装:160页正文语种:英语ISBN:145552347X条形码:9781455523474ASIN:145552347X您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Christopher Hitchens was on a book tour for his memoirHitch-22when he discovered he had cancer of the esophagus, an episode described with characteristic wit and candor in a series of articles he wrote forVanity Fair. In these essays, for which Hitchens was given the National Magazine Award, he describes his struggle not only with the disease but with its meaning to his friends and supporters, as well as his critics and detractors.
"Both elegant and moving, these columns display insight and bravery," wrote the National Magazine Award judges. "Christopher Hitchens is the best writer in the worst of times, and we are grateful for him."
媒体推荐"Nothing sharpened Christopher Hitchens' mind like Cancer. He wrote the best, most piercing, most clarifying prose of his career as he faced down the specter of his own demise. As he dealt with fatigue and nausea, with the anger, disgust and frustration that must accompany what he knew was a death sentence, Hitch poured it all into words as painfully honest as they were hilarious." (Sharon Waxman,TheWrap.com)
"Among the many things that made Hitchens unique was his precision of thought and expression. What made him rare were his courage and tenacity. He was fearless in the field and relentless in his defense of the defenseless with that mightiest of swords--his pen. Judging from his final essays, he was also fearless in the fact of death." (Kathleen Parker,The Washington Post)
"I have no doubt that Christopher Hitchens will have an afterlife. As one of the most original and provocative writers of his generation, his words will continue to mesmerize, incite, confound, and entertain." (Rabbi Shmuley Boteach,FoxNews.com)
"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 the the end." (Ian McEwan)
"A seeker of truth to the end, and a deservedly legendary witness against the hypocrisy of the ever-sactimonious establishment. What zeal this man had to eviscerate the conceits of the powerful, whether their authority derived from wealth, the state, or a claim to the ear of the divine." (Robert Scheer,TruthDig)
"Reading and responding to the Hitch is ceaselessly inspiring and seldom less than exhilarating. More, it is an instigatory experience: it compels you to get involved more deeply with the world around and inside you. Reading any worthwhile writer is an act of celebration, a shared reaction to the act of creation. More, it is an exercise in how to write, read, think and live." (PopMatters.com)
