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A carregar... Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reportspor Christopher Hitchens
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. It's such a relief to learn that early Hitchens is still great Hitchens. Prepared for the Worst is a collection of his best essays from the late Seventies and the Eighties and, if not quite prepared for the worst, I wasn't expecting it to match his later work. Happily, however, there's plenty of great writing, including some material that Hitchens was happy enough to repurpose for his later memoir, Hitch-22. There are early indicators of the writer honing one of his most potent weapons, his arch turn of phrase: "He takes this point on the chin," Hitchens writes of one unfortunate target, "and nearly floors himself in the process" (pg. 168). And the opening of one of his Kissinger essays, 'The Trouble with Henry', races gloriously out of the blocks, as though impatient to get stuck in to a man who would become a regular target. It deserves to be quoted in full: "When I had finished digesting The White House Years, I was so replete with its mendacity and conceit that I took a vow. I swore that I would never read another work by Henry Kissinger until the publication of his prison letters. But the old prayer "O Lord, Let Mine Enemy Write a Book" has proved too strong not to be answered once again." (pg. 152) Some of the writing about the Reagan years is understandably dated, but the evident vigour in passages such as the one above ensures that, in 2022, reading early Hitchens is not a redundant exercise. He opens the collection by quoting Nadine Gordimer, who said she tried to "write posthumously" and aimed to "communicate as if she were already dead" (pg. 3). Though its own author has now been dead more than a decade, there is in Prepared for the Worst a clarity of thought, and a determination not to speak cravenly or in euphemisms, that ensures it remains refreshing. Hitchens speaks! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
A collection of the author's contributions to publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, London Review of Books and New Statesman and Society. This collection includes sections devoted to literary criticism ranging from John Le Carre to Umberto Eco, foreign reportage from Beirut to Bombay and political analysis. Hitchens has a clear left-wing stance but his writings should appeal to those interested in modern politics. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The lack of a proper Contents page is irritating. There are five section headings, with their page numbers, but nothing for the individual essays within each section. Also no index. ( )