Hitch-22 - A Memoir
Author(s): Christopher Hitchens
The acid, hilarious, confessional and provocative memoirs of the bestselling author of God is Not Great - a story of a life, lived large. Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide. Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, Oxford and provides vivid accounts of his friendships and famous feuds - Gore Vidal, Martin Amis, Tariq Ali and Edward Said to name but a few - as well as his blistering attacks on Mother Teresa and the Almighty Himself. Confessional, candid and very funny, Hitch-22 is a brilliant expose of one of the world's most controversial thinkers. First published 2010.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Allen & Unwin
- : Allen & Unwin
- : January 2010
- : May 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : xii, 435
- : very good
- : 070
- : Paperback
- : Christopher Hitchens