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Whether on the invasion of iraq or the merits of vladimir nabokovs fiction, master controversialist hitchens has an informed opinion. This volume of essays encompasses hitchens writing over the past decade on politics, literature and religion. Essays by christopher hitchens paperback by christopher hitchens. Vanity fair one reads him hitchens despite his reputation as someone who wants to drink, argue, and tear the ornaments off the tree, because he is, first and last, a writer, an always exciting, often exacting, furious polemicist. Essays by christopher hitchens paperback bookpeople. On june 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, hitch22, christopher hitchens was stricken in his new york hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. For nearly four decades, hitchens has been telling us, in pitchperfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principlesthe principles of reason and tolerance and skepticism. Hitchens is often grouped with a generation of dazzlingly clever british writers who happen to be his.
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