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Hitch-22 : a memoir / Christopher Hitchens.

Hitch-22 : a memoir / Christopher Hitchens.
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ISBN 9781741759624 (pbk)
Name Hitchens, Christopher
Title Hitch-22 : a memoir / Christopher Hitchens.
Edition 1st ed.
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010
Description x, 435 p., [24] p. of plates. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue with premonitions -- Yvonne -- The Commander -- Fragments from an education -- Cambridge -- The sixties: revolution in the revolution -- Chris or Christopher? -- Havana versus Prague -- The Fenton factor -- Martin -- Portugal to Poland -- A second identity: on becoming an (Anglo) American -- Changing places -- Salman -- Mesopotamia from both sides -- Something of myself -- Thinking thrice about the Jewish question -- Edward Said in light and shade (and Saul) -- Decline, mutation, or metamorphosis?
Summary The life story of one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time. Confessional, candid and very funny, Hitch-22 is a brilliant expose of one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, Oxford and provides vivid accounts of his friendships and famous feuds - Gore Vidal, Martin Amis, Tariq Ali to name but a few.
Subjects Hitchens, Christopher
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
Journalists -- United States -- Biography
Political activists -- United States -- Biography
Authors, American -- Biography
British Americans -- Biography
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
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