01651nam a2200361u 4500 776526147 OCoLC 20190501181024.0 ta 121003s2012 nyu d 000 0deng d 9781455522552 1455522554 (OCoLC)776526147 BTCTA eng BTCTA BDX KNJ YDXCP ILC n-us--- CT275.H62575 A3 2012 304.6/4 23 Hitchens, Christopher. Mortality [text (large print)] / Christopher Hitchens ; foreword by Graydon Carter ; afterword by Carol Blue. 1st large print ed. New York : Twelve, 2012. xviii, 134 p. ; 20 cm. "Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"-- Provided by the publisher. On 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. Hitchens, Christopher Health. Cancer Patients United States Biography. Terminally ill United States Biography. Mortality. Death. Authors, American Biography. Large type books. 9 6900 6900 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2016-10-26 0 304.6 HITC 33186 2016-10-26 24.99 2016-10-26 BOOK