157-8) but his humour, even when dying (he knew his number was up as he wrote), remained miraculously unsullied to the end.Ī highly appropriate finale to a colourful career.Ĭlick image below to purchase North American edition.Ĭlick image below to purchase U.K. 1 New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the National Book Award - one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time. His account of his lifelong friendship with that other linguistic polymath, Martin Amis, for example, makes the book an eye-opener on its own (q.v. pp.

This last – an unusually frank work, in which he discloses both the ups and downs of an Anglo-American existence – is not only brilliantly written, but unusually revelatory, even for him. Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. Hitch-22: A Memoir Hardcover Jby Christopher Hitchens (Author) 1,346 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 25.00 118 Used from 1.95 22 New from 18.32 10 Collectible from 14. Those priceless pieces, anthologised in such books as “And Yet…” and “Arguably” (equally commended), culminated in his highly unorthodox autobiography, “Hitch 22”, published shortly before his death. Polemicist par excellence, the late lamented Christopher Hitchens left an indelible legacy of literary wit that eclipsed by far his infamous magnum opus, “God is not Great”.Įndowed with a wicked pen and an almost Churchillian vocabulary, his cerebral pyrotechnics remain the stuff of legend, most manifest in his essays.

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