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.
- ISBN10 1848879210
- ISBN13 9781848879218
- Publish Date 1 September 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main - Atlantic Edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English