Goodreads: 4.02/5
Sarah’s Thoughts: I’m a long time fan of Hitchens - he was insanely well spoken and terrifyingly sharp. I never thought I would get a kick out of watching old men debate, but he made it fascinating.
A Life in Contradictions
Christopher Hitchens is one of the most noticed and debated public intellectuals of our time. Despite decades on the public stage, he has rarely written of the private dimensions of his life - until now.
HITCH-22 is the candid, personal history of a complicated man: English-born and Amerian by adoption, all atheist and partly Jewish, stalwartly bohemian (Proudly flaunting “drinking” along with “disputation” as “hobbies” in Who’s Who), and rigourously intellectual.
“If you are invited to debate…with Christopher Hitchens, decline. Hi witty repartee, his ready-access store of historical quotations, his bookish eloquence, his effortless flow of well-formed words…would threaten your arguments even if you had good ones to deploy.” - Richard Dawkins
Note: There is some rippling on the dust jacket.
Goodreads: 4.02/5
Sarah’s Thoughts: I’m a long time fan of Hitchens - he was insanely well spoken and terrifyingly sharp. I never thought I would get a kick out of watching old men debate, but he made it fascinating.
A Life in Contradictions
Christopher Hitchens is one of the most noticed and debated public intellectuals of our time. Despite decades on the public stage, he has rarely written of the private dimensions of his life - until now.
HITCH-22 is the candid, personal history of a complicated man: English-born and Amerian by adoption, all atheist and partly Jewish, stalwartly bohemian (Proudly flaunting “drinking” along with “disputation” as “hobbies” in Who’s Who), and rigourously intellectual.
“If you are invited to debate…with Christopher Hitchens, decline. Hi witty repartee, his ready-access store of historical quotations, his bookish eloquence, his effortless flow of well-formed words…would threaten your arguments even if you had good ones to deploy.” - Richard Dawkins
Note: There is some rippling on the dust jacket.
ISBN: 9780771041105
