During the US book tour for his memoir,Hitch-22,Christopher Hitchens awoke in his New York hotel room to excruciating pain in his chest.As he would later write in the first of a series of pieces for Vanity Fair, he was being deported "from the country of the well acros the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady" over the next year he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment,enduring catastrophic levels of suffering and eventually losing the faculty of speech.
Atlantic Books,Lonson Hardback with d.j. 106 p. Perfect condition (new)