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Mortality

Christopher Hitchens

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Mens & Maatschappij
  • ISBN: 9781848879232
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:03 oktober 2013
Aantal pagina's:128
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Christopher Hitchens
Tweede Auteur:Christophr Hitchens
Tweede Auteur:Christophr Hitchens
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Editie:Main
Product breedte:126 mm
Product hoogte:17 mm
Product lengte:198 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:128 mm
Verpakking hoogte:15 mm
Verpakking lengte:202 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:135 g
Overige kenmerken
Editie:Main
Product breedte:126 mm
Product hoogte:17 mm
Product lengte:198 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:128 mm
Verpakking hoogte:15 mm
Verpakking lengte:202 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:135 g

Samenvatting

Sunday Times 2012 Books of The Year Mail on Sunday's 2012 Books of The Year Independent's 2012 Books of The Year The Times 2012 Books of The Year During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.' Over the next year he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment, enduring catastrophic levels of suffering and eventually losing the ability to speak. Mortality is the most meditative collection of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer etiquette, and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation with mortality, Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering.