Details

A Hitch in Time


A Hitch in Time

Writings from the London Review of Books

von: Christopher Hitchens

11,49 €

Verlag: Atlantic Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 25.11.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9781838956011
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 368

Dieses eBook enthält ein Wasserzeichen.

Beschreibungen

'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.' James Wolcott in his introduction
Christopher Hitchens was a star writer wherever he wrote, and the same was true of the London Review of Books, to which he contributed sixty pieces over two decades. Anthologised here for the first time, this selection of his finest LRB reviews, diaries and essays (along with a smattering of ferocious letters) finds Hitchens at his very best.
Familiar bêtes noires - Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton - rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations: P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret and, magisterially, Isaiah Berlin. Here is Hitchens on the (first) Gulf War and the 'Salman Rushdie Acid Test', on being spanked by Mrs Thatcher in the House of Lords and taking his son to the Oscars, on America's homegrown Nazis and 'Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square' in 1968.
Edited by the London Review of Books, with an introduction by James Wolcott, this collection recaptures, ten years after his death, 'a Hitch in time': barnstorming, cauterising, and ultimately uncontainable.
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) spent two decades contributing to the
London Review of Books. He was also a contributing editor to
Vanity Fair and a columnist for
Slate. He was the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as his international bestseller and National Book Award nominee,
god Is Not Great. His memoir,
Hitch-22, which was a Su
nday Times bestseller, was nominated for the Orwell Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His last book,
Mortality, was published in 2012 by Atlantic Books.

Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren:

Stay away from Gretchen
Stay away from Gretchen
von: Susanne Abel
EPUB ebook
10,99 €
Balada del cometa
Balada del cometa
von: Adrián Linari
EPUB ebook
4,99 €