Hitch-22: A Memoir

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Grand Central Publishing, Jun 3, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 448 pages
"If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him." ―Ian McEwan

A stylish new paperback edition of HITCH-22, the incendiary memoir of a brilliant contrarian and one of Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.

In this timeless and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to his life in Washington DC, the base from which from he would launch fierce attacks on tyranny of all kinds. Along the way, he recalls the girls, boys and booze; the friendships and the feuds; the grand struggles and lost causes; and the mistakes and misgivings that have characterised his life.

HITCH-22 is, by turns, moving and funny, charming and infuriating, enraging and inspiring. It is an indispensable companion to the life and thought of our pre-eminent political writer.

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Contents

The Commander
32
Fragments from an Education
47
Cambridge
63
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England on April 13, 1949. He was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and wrote for numerous other publications throughout his lifetime. He was the author of numerous books including No One Left to Lie To, For the Sake of Argument, Prepared for the Worst, God Is Not Great, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died due to complication from esophageal cancer on December 15, 2011 at the age of 62.

Bibliographic information

TitleHitch-22: A Memoir
AuthorChristopher Hitchens
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherGrand Central Publishing, 2011
Original fromthe University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized12 Dec 2016
ISBN044654034X, 9780446540346
Length448 pages
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