01606nam a2200337u  4500001001100000003000700011005001700018007000300035008004100038020001800079020001500097035002100112040004400133043001200177050002600189082001600215100002700231245011600258250002400374260003100398300002800429520014200457520045800599600003501057650004801092650004601140650001501186650001101201650003401212655002201246776526147 OCoLC 20190501181024.0ta121003s2012    nyu     d     000 0deng d  a9781455522552  a1455522554  a(OCoLC)776526147  aBTCTAbengcBTCTAdBDXdKNJdYDXCPdILC  an-us---14aCT275.H62575bA3 201204a304.6/42231 aHitchens, Christopher.10aMortalityh[text (large print)] /cChristopher Hitchens ; foreword by Graydon Carter ; afterword by Carol Blue.  a1st large print ed.  aNew York :bTwelve,c2012.  axviii, 134 p. ;c20 cm.  a"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"-- Provided by the publisher.  aOn June 8, 2010, while on a book tour, Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture. Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us.10aHitchens, ChristopherxHealth. 0aCancerxPatientszUnited StatesvBiography. 0aTerminally illzUnited StatesvBiography. 0aMortality. 0aDeath. 0aAuthors, AmericanvBiography. 0aLarge type books.