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A Hitch in Time

By: Christopher Hitchens, James Wolcott - introduction
Narrated by: Hannibal Hills, James Wolcott
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“An extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.”—James Wolcott in his introduction

An outstanding new collection, A HITCH IN TIME is a must-have for Hitchens completists and the perfect starting point for understanding one of the most brilliant essayists of all time.

Anthologized here for the first time, A HITCH IN TIME is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries and essays—along with a smattering of ferocious letters. Familiar bêtes noires—Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton—rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations: P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret and, magisterially, Isaiah Berlin. A HITCH IN TIME is a banquet of entertaining stories ranging from his thoughts on Salman Rushdie to being spanked by Margaret Thatcher in The House of Lords and the night he took his son to the Oscars. The broad scope and high caliber of Hitchens’ essays allows his work to transcend the occasion for which it was written and continues to be essential.

Along with an introduction by James Wolcott, A HITCH IN TIME recaptures the brilliance of Hitchens—barnstorming, cauterizing, and ultimately uncontainable.

©2024 Christopher Hitchens and James Wolcott (P)2024 Twelve
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Full of ancient history

This is a random collection of essays from the '90s. If you've read Hitch 22 and God Is Not Great, you'll find little new in this collection. The narrator does a great impression of Hitch, which is really the only redeeming quality of the book.

I won't return it out of respect for the great man, and to benefit his wife and children.

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Only Hitch

I found the reading of this work insufferable. As much as I enjoy Mr. Hitchen’s writings, this voice artist spat out every chapter in such a hateful way that much of the nuance was lost. Ugh. Wish I had just read it.

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Yuck

The narration is pretentious, off putting, affected, pseudo intellectual sounding and is the worst I have heard on Audible. I couldn’t get past the ostentatiousness. Totally wasted my money and a real 24karat disappointment.

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