01612nam a22002297a 4500 20240926152237.0 240926b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781848879218 : Donated by Prof. Atul Mishra (IRGS) 920.3 HIT Hitchens, Christopher. Mortality. /Christopher Hitchens. , London : Atlantic Books , 2012. xv, 106p. : 24cm. 00 The world's greatest contrarian confronts his own death in this brave and unforgettable book. 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. Land of malady Mortality Contemporary cipher Christopher Hitchens BOOK 62476 62476 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2024-09-26 Donated by Prof. Atul Mishra (IRGS) 0.00 0 920.3 HIT G3984 2024-09-26 00:00:00 2024-09-26 BOOK Donated by Prof. Atul Mishra (IRGS)