And Yet...: Essays

And Yet...: Essays

The seminal, uncollected essaysâ€”lauded as â€œdazzlingâ€ (The New York Times Book Review)â€”by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarianâ€™s genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.

For more than forty years, Christopher Hitchens delivered essays to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. His death in December 2011 from esophageal cancer prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary voicesâ€”writers, readers, pundits and critics the world over mourned his loss.

At the time of his death, Hitchens left nearly 250,000 words of essays not yet published in book form. â€œAnother great book of essays from a writer who we wish were still alive to produce more copyâ€ (National Review), And Yetâ€¦ ranges from the literary to the political and is a banquet of entertaining and instructive delights, including essays on Orwell, Lermontov, Chesterton, Fleming, Naipaul, Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, and Dickens, among others, as well as his laugh-out-loud self-mocking â€œmakeover.â€ The range and quality of Hitchensâ€™s essays transcend the particular occasions for which they were originally written, yielding â€œa bounty of famous scalps, thunder-blasted targets, and a few love letters from the notorious provocateur-in-chiefâ€™s erudite and scathing assessments of American cultureâ€ (Vanity Fair). Often prescient, always pugnacious, formidably learned, Hitchens was a polemicist for the ages. With this posthumous volume, he remains, â€œAmericaâ€™s foremost rhetorical pugilistâ€ (The Village Voice).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781476772073
ReleaseDate 2016-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476772073

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781476772073
ReleaseDate	2016-10-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476772073

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