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What do I say for a review? It isn't strong compared to Hitchens' other books. This isn't a review, just an acknowledgement I've read the book. (Although I'm not sure about my mother, she wavered.)

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This is the world of cancer.īut both of them are free now, ashes to ashes and dust to dust and none of that 'reunited with loved ones just waiting in the world beyond'.

A world where joy was defined as seeing a loved one and desperate sadness at knowing it was for the last time. A world without hope, a world where nothing beckoned.

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A world shrunk to a single room and that was defined by a wall of bitterness to one side, pain to another, a slow crumbling of the third wall, and the fourth was windows onto a beautiful garden she could only look at but not enter. My mother died of cancer and it really was a different world. Hitchens was an anti-theist, and he described himself as a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism, and reason.ģ.75 stars really, but I gave it 5 because Christopher Hitchens wrote it whilst dying of cancer and because of the concept of cancer being another country foreign to the one that we live in. The Septemattacks strengthened his embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he called 'fascism with an Islamic face.' He is known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson, and for his excoriating critiques of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton. Formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of both the United Kingdom and United States, Hitchens departed from the grassroots of the political left in 1989 after what he called the 'tepid reaction' of the European left following Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwa calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie, but he stated on the Charlie Rose show aired August 2007 that he remained a 'Democratic Socialist.' While he was once identified with the Anglo-American radical political left, near the end of his life he embraced some arguably right-wing causes, most notably the Iraq War. Hitchens was a polemicist and intellectual. He was also a media fellow at the Hoover Institution. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books - the most famous being God Is Not Great - made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets.

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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 mortality.Ĭhristopher Eric Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist, and literary critic. In this account of his affliction, he describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. 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.

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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. 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.

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