Mortality
Christopher Hitchens • 2012
Devastation Rating
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Our Take
Hitchens faced esophageal cancer with the same combative clarity he brought to everything else. These essays refuse consolation — no deathbed conversion, no softening, just a brilliant mind documenting its own dissolution. The last chapter is fragments. The book is unfinished because he is.
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