And Yet..........Essays
Christopher Hitchens
Allen & Unwin - NZD $36.99
These seminal,
uncollected essays by the late Christopher Hitchens showcase the notorious
contrarian's genius for rhetoric, and offer sharp rebukes to tyrants and the
ill-informed everywhere.
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled,
prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a
lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an
essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic
Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity
Fair. Any publication of a volume of Hitchens' essays was a major event on
both sides of the Atlantic.
Now comes the last of the last; a volume of
Hitchens' previously unpublished essays, covering the themes that define
Hitchens the thinker: literature, religion and politics. These essays remind
us, once more, of the fierce, brilliant and trenchant voice of Christopher
Hitchens.
About the author
Christopher
Hitchens (1949-2011) was a contributing editor Vanity Fair and a colummnist for
Slate. He was the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas
Jefferson, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill and Hillary
Clinton, as well as his international bestseller and National Book Award
nominee, God Is Not Great. His memoir, Hitch-22, was
nominated for the Orwell Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award.
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