Mortality
Autor Christopher Hitchensen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2014
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.
MORTALITYis
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
throughout
with
penetrating
intelligence,
Hitchens's
testament
is
a
courageous
and
lucid
work
of
literature,
an
affirmation
of
the
dignity
and
worth
of
man.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781455502769
ISBN-10: 1455502766
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 127 x 191 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
ISBN-10: 1455502766
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 127 x 191 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
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Notă biografică
Christopher
Hitchens
was
a
contributing
editor
toVanity
Fair,Slate,
andThe
Atlantic,
and
the
author
of
numerous
books,
including
works
on
Thomas
Jefferson,
Thomas
Paine,
and
George
Orwell.
He
also
wrote
the
international
bestsellersgod
Is
Not
Great:
How
Religion
Poisons
Everything,Hitch-22:
A
Memoir,
andArguably.
He
died
in
2011.
Recenzii
"Dealing
unflinchingly
with
bodily
ravagement,
reflecting
on
life's
beauty
and
remaining
rakish
about
his
ideological
foes,
Hitchens
proves
that
great
writers
are
truly
immortal."—People,
4-star
review
"Remarkable . . . The book's power lies in its simplicity, in its straightforward, intelligent documenting, its startling refusal of showiness or melodrama or grandeur....The great polemicist, essayist, conversationalist, provocateur, arguer, has done something extraordinary in this book. He has created yet another style, another mode, another way of being and thinking and dreaming, on his death bed; he has written in many ways an un-Hitchens-like book, eluding proclamations, resolutions, mastery, wit, at-easeness with opinion, in favor of unnerving directness, of harrowing documentation. He has allowed his dismantled confidence, his undoing to breathe, and to live in the pages, in a way that is startling and new and an achievement unlike his others, different in kind, yet equally ambitious and relentlessly honest."—Katie Roiphe,Slate.com
"Like virtually everything he wrote over his long, distinguished career, diamond-hard and brilliant . . .vivid, heart-wrenching and haunting - messages in a bottle tossed from the deck of a sinking ship as its captain, reeling in agony and fighting through the fog of morphine, struggles to keep his engines going . . . a final, defiant, and well-reasoned defense of his non-God-fearingness . . . It is, however, sobering and grief-inducing to read this brave and harrowing account of his 'year of living dyingly' in the grip of an alien that succeeded where none of his debate opponents had in bringing him down."—Christopher Buckley,New York Times Book Review
"This trenchant, sassy, tragically posthumous little black book earns a proud spot on the end-of-life shelf, along with Julian Barnes' Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Joan Wickersham's The Suicide Index, Saul Bellow's Ravelstein, and Philip Roth's Everyman and Exit Ghost, to name just a few."—NPR.org
"A book driven by his desire to look death squarely in the face and provoked by detractors who were certain he would turn to religion when confronted with it. He did not... [MORTALITY is] full of humility, a humility worthy of kings."—Newsday
"The melancholy irony of 'Mortality' is that it gave our best essayist - I can't think of someone who comes even close - the chance to grapple with the most intractable subject, to wrestle with the angel of death in a battle we will all have to lose at one time or another.....The voice is gone. The words remain."—The New York Daily News
"These essays are brave and fitting final words from a writer at the end of his journey."—Bookpage
"There are no clever pitches to diminish the horror vacui of oblivion. He offers no self-pity or special pleading. The book is tough-minded . . . poignant, but the poignancy is ours, not his."—Wall Street Journal
"Mortality is a crash course in lived philosophy....bracing."—Salon
"Stark and powerful... Hitchens's powerful voice compels us to consider carefully the small measures by which we live every day and to cherish them."—Publisher's Weekly (Starred)
"A jovially combative riposte to anyone who thought that death would silence master controversialist Hitchens."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred)
"Mortality, the final book by Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American essayist, reporter, devout atheist and all-around intellectual troublemaker, won't be shelved in the travel section. But in a sense that's where it belongs, along with the best of the literary travel writers. Think George Orwell, one of Hitchens' heroes....Few writers wrote sharper sentences or treated words with more respect."—USA Today, "The 25 Big Books of Fall"
"Unsparingly blunt, rhetorically suave . . . It's rare that someone so powerfully writes of such deep connections between the death of intellectual ability and the decay of the body."—Boston Globe
"To the end, he produces sentences of startling beauty and precision . . . One of our best is gone, yet "Mortality" is a powerful and moving final utterance."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Mortality is not just for Hitchens' fans, but for all.... With almost unimaginable clarity, grace and wit, even for the master wordsmith we had grown used to. We see here a very warm and thoughtful human being. Poignant and deeply personal thoughts on the art of writing and the heartbreak of losing his unmistakable speaking voice during the course of treatment....The furthest thing from grim, Mortality is a gift. Not just from Christopher, but from Carol as well. Do pick it up."—Huffington Post
"Remarkable . . . The book's power lies in its simplicity, in its straightforward, intelligent documenting, its startling refusal of showiness or melodrama or grandeur....The great polemicist, essayist, conversationalist, provocateur, arguer, has done something extraordinary in this book. He has created yet another style, another mode, another way of being and thinking and dreaming, on his death bed; he has written in many ways an un-Hitchens-like book, eluding proclamations, resolutions, mastery, wit, at-easeness with opinion, in favor of unnerving directness, of harrowing documentation. He has allowed his dismantled confidence, his undoing to breathe, and to live in the pages, in a way that is startling and new and an achievement unlike his others, different in kind, yet equally ambitious and relentlessly honest."—Katie Roiphe,Slate.com
"Like virtually everything he wrote over his long, distinguished career, diamond-hard and brilliant . . .vivid, heart-wrenching and haunting - messages in a bottle tossed from the deck of a sinking ship as its captain, reeling in agony and fighting through the fog of morphine, struggles to keep his engines going . . . a final, defiant, and well-reasoned defense of his non-God-fearingness . . . It is, however, sobering and grief-inducing to read this brave and harrowing account of his 'year of living dyingly' in the grip of an alien that succeeded where none of his debate opponents had in bringing him down."—Christopher Buckley,New York Times Book Review
"This trenchant, sassy, tragically posthumous little black book earns a proud spot on the end-of-life shelf, along with Julian Barnes' Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Joan Wickersham's The Suicide Index, Saul Bellow's Ravelstein, and Philip Roth's Everyman and Exit Ghost, to name just a few."—NPR.org
"A book driven by his desire to look death squarely in the face and provoked by detractors who were certain he would turn to religion when confronted with it. He did not... [MORTALITY is] full of humility, a humility worthy of kings."—Newsday
"The melancholy irony of 'Mortality' is that it gave our best essayist - I can't think of someone who comes even close - the chance to grapple with the most intractable subject, to wrestle with the angel of death in a battle we will all have to lose at one time or another.....The voice is gone. The words remain."—The New York Daily News
"These essays are brave and fitting final words from a writer at the end of his journey."—Bookpage
"There are no clever pitches to diminish the horror vacui of oblivion. He offers no self-pity or special pleading. The book is tough-minded . . . poignant, but the poignancy is ours, not his."—Wall Street Journal
"Mortality is a crash course in lived philosophy....bracing."—Salon
"Stark and powerful... Hitchens's powerful voice compels us to consider carefully the small measures by which we live every day and to cherish them."—Publisher's Weekly (Starred)
"A jovially combative riposte to anyone who thought that death would silence master controversialist Hitchens."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred)
"Mortality, the final book by Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American essayist, reporter, devout atheist and all-around intellectual troublemaker, won't be shelved in the travel section. But in a sense that's where it belongs, along with the best of the literary travel writers. Think George Orwell, one of Hitchens' heroes....Few writers wrote sharper sentences or treated words with more respect."—USA Today, "The 25 Big Books of Fall"
"Unsparingly blunt, rhetorically suave . . . It's rare that someone so powerfully writes of such deep connections between the death of intellectual ability and the decay of the body."—Boston Globe
"To the end, he produces sentences of startling beauty and precision . . . One of our best is gone, yet "Mortality" is a powerful and moving final utterance."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Mortality is not just for Hitchens' fans, but for all.... With almost unimaginable clarity, grace and wit, even for the master wordsmith we had grown used to. We see here a very warm and thoughtful human being. Poignant and deeply personal thoughts on the art of writing and the heartbreak of losing his unmistakable speaking voice during the course of treatment....The furthest thing from grim, Mortality is a gift. Not just from Christopher, but from Carol as well. Do pick it up."—Huffington Post
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Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.