And Yet...: Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781476772066)

The seminal, uncollected essays--lauded as "dazzling" (The New York Times Book Review)--by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian'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 voices--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. "Another great book of essays from a writer who we wish were still alive to produce more copy" (National Review), And Yet... 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 "makeover." The range and quality of Hitchens's essays transcend the particular occasions for which they were originally written, yielding "a bounty of famous scalps, thunder-blasted targets, and a few love letters from the notorious provocateur-in-chief's erudite and scathing assessments of American culture" (Vanity Fair). Often prescient, always pugnacious, formidably learned, Hitchens was a polemicist for the ages. With this posthumous volume, he remains, "America's foremost rhetorical pugilist" (The Village Voice).

Author: Christopher Hitchens
ISBN-10: 1476772061
ISBN-13: 9781476772066
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2015
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2015 pg. 53
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2015
Publishers Weekly 12/14/2015
Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 105
New York Times Book Review 01/10/2016 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 01/17/2016 pg. 22
Library Journal 07/01/2015