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- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Christopher Hitchens
- First published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Twelve
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781455502752
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS was born in 1949 in England and was a graduate of Balliol College at Oxford University. He was the father of three children and the author of more than twenty books and pamphlets, including collections of essays, criticism, and reportage. His book, god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and an international bestseller. His bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. A visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School in New York City, he was also the I.F. Stone professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California,
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