Hitch-22: A Memoir

Only when you get seriously ill do you understand how rich life is.

The brilliant intellectual and sharp debater—American writer Christopher Hitchens—kept writing this book until the end, resisting the terrible diagnosis. It’s his final report, but not from the “hot spots” he often went to on assignment for the magazine—this time it is from a hospital room.
This is an honest and bitter account of how to live with illness. It is a world of biting and deeply personal reflections about one’s own life, beloved work, and the pain the loss of the ability to communicate causes the writer and speaker. An agnostic in the truest sense of the word, Hitchens remained faithful to himself to the last letter.
This book is for those who have experience of fighting and loss. For those trying to be candid and honest—and who, in hard moments, strive to stand their ground.