Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Summary
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In his final masterpiece, Hitchens confronts mortality with unflinching honesty during his 19-month battle with cancer. The posthumous memoir sparked global conversations about death, praised for its "precision of thought" while rejecting religious comfort. What makes facing death with both eyes open so revolutionary?
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When the Body Becomes a Battlefield
June 2010 began with what felt like being shackled to a corpse. Christopher Hitchens woke in a New York hotel room with his chest hollowed out and refilled with cement, his breathing audible but shallow, his heart erratic. This wasn't a hangover-though he'd certainly experienced legendary ones. This was something else entirely: a sudden deportation from the country of the well to the land of malady, a one-way journey across a border he hadn't known existed until that morning. Within hours, emergency physicians showed him shadowy negatives and directed him to an oncologist. The diagnosis: esophageal cancer, already spread to his lymph nodes. One tumor was large enough to see, "palpable" beneath the skin of his right clavicle-never good news. Yet that very evening, despite vomiting precisely twice before each appearance, he performed on The Daily Show and at the 92nd Street Y with Salman Rushdie. Nobody noticed. This desperate clinging to normalcy defines the newly sick, those still pretending citizenship in their former country even as they learn the language of their new one-a place of universal smiles, terrible cuisine, and feeble humor.
The Blind Alien Within
Tumortown and Its Peculiar Inhabitants
The Theft of Voice
The Myth of Noble Suffering
Between Care and Cruelty
Living Until the End
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