A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled,prolific writer,who raised the polemical essay to a new art form,over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman,Atlantic Monthly,London Review of Books,TLS and Vanity Fair. Any publication of a volume of Hitchens'essays was a major event on both sides of the Atlantic. Now comes a volume of Hitchens'previously uncollected essays,covering the themes that define Hitchens the thinker: literature,religion and politics. These essays remind us,once more,of the fierce,brilliant and trenchant voice of Christopher Hitchens.
Publisher: Atlantic BooksISBN: 9781838952266Number of pages: 352Weight: 247 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mmEdition: Main
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The range is remarkable... Literary criticism is often where he shines - the pieces on Orwell and Chesterton,in particular,are alert,nuanced and witty.And yet... there are few journalists who can match the verve and panache of Hitchens's prose. He mixes the loquaciousness of the barfly with the fluency of the literary artist,and could not pen a dull sentence if he tried.What you will find in And Yet..., is a body of work that offers some of the most various,nutritious and amusing prose you are likely to encounter,and that stands as a testament to the consolations of a phrase he cherished: litera scripta manet - the written word remains.This final collection displays his startling ability to write so well about so much... The sense of loss at the subjects he will not write about is more than outweighed by the pleasure at those that he did.
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