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020			_a9781848879218
028			_a: Donated by Prof. Atul Mishra (IRGS)
082			_a920.3 HIT
100			_aHitchens, Christopher.
245			_aMortality. _c/Christopher Hitchens.
260			_a, London _b: Atlantic Books _c, 2012.
300			_axv, 106p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b00
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aLand of malady
650			_aMortality
650			_aContemporary cipher
700			_aChristopher Hitchens
942			_cBOOK
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