letters to a young contrarian, mortality, god is not great, hitch 22 by christopher hitchens collection 4 books set  <b>please note that the following individual books as per original isbn and cover image in this listing shall be dispatched collectively:</b><br><br> <b>letters to a young contrarian, mortality, god is not great, hitch 22 by christopher hitchens collection 4 books set:</b><br><br> <b>letters to a young contrarian:</b><br> in the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author christopher hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways.<br><br> <b>mortality:</b><br> during the american book tour for his memoir, hitch-22, christopher hitchens collapsed in his hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest. as he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving vanity fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.' over the next year he experienced the full force of modern cancer treatment.<br><br> <b>god is not great:</b><br> god is not great is the ultimate case against religion. in a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, christopher hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. above all, hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient god has profoundly damaged humanity.<br><br> <b>hitch 22:</b><br> in this long-awaited and candid memoir, hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved naval officer father; to his life in washington dc, the base from which from he would launch fierce attacks on tyranny of all kinds.<br><br>