Twelve 9/4/2012 Hardback or Cased Book New in New jacket Mortality (Hardback or Cased Book)

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: 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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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 ...

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Grand Central Publishing, Date: 2012. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2012. Grand Central Publishing ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

New York, New York: Twelve / Hachette Book Group, Date: 2012. Hardcover. As New/As New. 56% off retail price! May contain remainder marks or areas of minor shelf wear. Packed and shipped with care. 2012. Twelve / Hachette Book Group ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

Twelve. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Date: 2012. Hardcover. 1455502758 . Inked name/date on half-title page; single stray stain on front, o/w VG+; 6 X 0.85 X 8.9 inches; 128 pages . 2012. Twelve ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

New York, NY, USA: Twelve, Date: 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Dust jacket in very good condition with light wear to edges and corners. Pictures available upon request. 2012. Twelve ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [CA]

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New York: Twelve. Grand Central Publishing, Date: 2012 First Edition/First Printing, September 2012, as stated on the copyright page. Hardcover in dustjacket. 204 pages. An exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching book at the human predicament. A fine dustjacket over a fine book. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection 2012. Twelve. Grand Central Publishing ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

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Twelve, Date: 2012-09-04. Hardcover. Very Good. Very nice book. Some wear to DJ edges and corners. Front inside flap of DJ is price clipped. 2012. Twelve ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

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Twelve, Date: 2012. Hardcover. New. 128 pages. 7.60x5.00x0.70 inches. 2012. Twelve ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [GB]

Twelve. Used - Good. DUST JACKET HAS SOME MINOR SHELF WEAR BUT BOOK REMAINS IN GOOD READABLE CONDITION. Hardcover This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly. Twelve ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

New York: Twelve. Vg-/Vg- Minimal Underlining On One Page. Prev. Owner Notation, Address Label On Half-Title. Dj Edgeworn At Front Fore-Edge. All Text Legible, Binding Tight. Pages: 106.. Date: 2012. 2nd Printing. Hardcover.. 2012. Twelve ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]