Hitchens, Christopher

Mortality

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ISBN 13:: 9781838952235
author:: Hitchens, Christopher
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Atlantic Books
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2021
Pages:: 128
Dimensions:: 19.8 x 12.9 x 0.7 centimeters (0
Genre:: Biography, Medical, Biography,
Condition:: New
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Mortality is a deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration of the author's experience with cancer. In this candid and insightful book, Christopher Hitchens shares his struggles with the disease, offering a unique perspective on the human impact of illness. With characteristic eloquence and wit, Hitchens confronts the complexities of mortality, revealing a nuanced and compassionate understanding of a disease that can often be shrouded in mystery.

This book is a powerful and moving examination of the human experience, one that seeks to humanise a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering. Through his writing, Hitchens returns a face to a disease that can often be reduced to statistics and abstract concepts, instead revealing the complexities and vulnerabilities of the human body.

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