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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Mortality about?

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." "A jovially combative riposte to anyone who thought that death would silence master controversialist Hitchens (Hitch-22, 2010, etc.)." - Kirkus ReviewsOver 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. 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. "Among the many things that made

Who reads Mortality?

Author

Christopher Hitchens

Publisher

Twelve

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781455502752

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Memoir, Social Science, Medical

Rating

4.12 / 5 (14,530 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14