New York City, NY: Twelve Press, Date: 2012. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Twelve Press, 2012. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 110 pages. The author's last book, published posthumously. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out within the first few weeks of publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Christopher Hitchens' "Mortality". "End-of-life" essays and a Coda of Last Notes that appear in published form for the very first time, the best book of its kind since Susan Sontag's "Illness As Metaphor" (1978) . All seven pieces first appeared in gripping monthly installments in Vanity Fair Magazine. They show the terminally ill Hitchens to be unsentimentally witty, insightful, and funny until the grim end. The single most reflective and poignant piece is on the idea of voice: Hitchens permanently lost his speaking voice during aggressive treatment, prompting him to write what is surely one of the most original meditations on the (deadly) literary cliche, "the writer's voice", and what it means to a famously eloquent public intellectual/writer like him to lose the ability to speak. Another brilliantly sustained piece on the aphorism by Nietzsche, "Whatever doesn't kill ...

First Edition/First Printing, September 2012 as stated on the copyright page. An excemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unkown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. A fine dustjacket over a fine book. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Twelve. Grand Central Publishing ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

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ISBN10: 1455502758, ISBN13: 9781455502752, [publisher: Little, Brown & Company, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. 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. Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. 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. Mortality is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined ...
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ISBN10: 1455502758, ISBN13: 9781455502752, [publisher: TWELVE] Hardcover &Uumlber den AutorChristopher Hitchens was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Slate, and The Atlantic, and the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Orwell. He also wrote the in.
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ISBN10: 1455502758, ISBN13: 9781455502752, [publisher: Little, Brown & Company, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. 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. Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. 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. Mortality is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined ...
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