{"product_id":"a-hitch-in-time-by-christopher-hitchens-9781838956028","title":"A Hitch in Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.\u003c\/b\u003e - James Wolcott in \u003cb\u003ehis introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Hitchens was a star writer wherever he wrote, and the same was true of the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, to which he contributed sixty pieces over two decades. Anthologised here for the first time, this selection of his finest \u003ci\u003eLRB\u003c\/i\u003e reviews, diaries and essays (along with a smattering of ferocious letters) finds Hitchens at his very best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFamiliar bêtes noires – Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton – rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations: P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret and, magisterially, Isaiah Berlin. Here is Hitchens on the (first) Gulf War and the 'Salman Rushdie Acid Test', on being spanked by Mrs Thatcher in the House of Lords and taking his son to the Oscars, on America's homegrown Nazis and 'Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square' in 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, with an introduction by James Wolcott, this collection recaptures, ten years after his death, \u003ci\u003eA Hitch in Time\u003c\/i\u003e: barnstorming, cauterising, and ultimately uncontainable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423719538924,"sku":"9781838956028","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61m0KtWGgtL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774428969","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-hitch-in-time-by-christopher-hitchens-9781838956028","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}