Hitch 22

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• Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens

  It was at Oxford that he began to lead a double life. On the one hand he was Christopher, hanging out with the gilded Brideshead set, drinking fine wine and eating at posh restaurants. On the other, he was Chris, picketing factories with his Trotskyi ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• Hitch 22: A memoir by Christopher Hitchens

  In the final chapter of this book, entitled "Decline, Mutation or Metamorphosis?", Christopher Hitchens tries to answer the charge that he has, in the words of Julian Barnes, "done the ritual shuffle to the right". Quite a tough one to wriggle out of ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  Not sure i would have liked Mr Hitchens, to be honest, who probably had a bit of the marmite effect on those he met. One cannot question his erudition, however, or the quality of his inquiry into modern politics, religion and human behaviour. It's moving in part because of the dramatic irony bestowe ... (continue)

  Not sure i would have liked Mr Hitchens, to be honest, who probably had a bit of the marmite effect on those he met. One cannot question his erudition, however, or the quality of his inquiry into modern politics, religion and human behaviour. It's moving in part because of the dramatic irony bestowed by our knowledge of his imminent and untimely death. And interesting in chief because of the front row seat he seemed to occupy at various turning points in European, Middle Eastern and US history. Blimey, though, he must have been exhausted stooping to pick up all those names he dropped in the writing...

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• English Books
• Paperback 448 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1843549220
• ISBN-13: 9781843549222
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Dimensions: 194 mm x 129 mm x 39 mm Just how big is that?

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