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Author Hitchens, Christopher.

Title Mortality / Christopher Hitchens ; foreword by Graydon Carter ; afterword by Carol Blue.

Publication Info. New York : Twelve, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.9 HITCHENS    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  304.64 HITCHENS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. HITCHENS, CH.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  304.6 H636    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  304.64 HITCHENS    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  306.9 HIT    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  304.64 H    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  304.6 HIT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  306.9 HITCHENS    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xv, 104 pages ; 20 cm
Summary 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.
Subject Hitchens, Christopher -- Health.
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Mortality.
Death.
Authors, American -- Biography.
ISBN 9781455502752 regular ed. $22.99
1455502758 regular ed.
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