{"product_id":"9781476772073","title":"And Yet...","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe seminal, uncollected essays—lauded as “dazzling” (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)—by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eGod Is Not Great\u003c\/i\u003e, showcase the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than forty years, Christopher Hitchens delivered essays to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. His death in December 2011 from esophageal cancer prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary voices—writers, readers, pundits and critics the world over mourned his loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the time of his death, Hitchens left nearly 250,000 words of essays not yet published in book form. “Another great book of essays from a writer who we wish were still alive to produce more copy” (\u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eAnd Yet…\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the literary to the political and is a banquet of entertaining and instructive delights, including essays on Orwell, Lermontov, Chesterton, Fleming, Naipaul, Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, and Dickens, among others, as well as his laugh-out-loud self-mocking “makeover.” The range and quality of Hitchens’s essays transcend the particular occasions for which they were originally written, yielding “a bounty of famous scalps, thunder-blasted targets, and a few love letters from the notorious provocateur-in-chief’s erudite and scathing assessments of American culture” (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e). Often prescient, always pugnacious, formidably learned, Hitchens was a polemicist for the ages. With this posthumous volume, he remains, “America’s foremost rhetorical pugilist” (\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049360965872,"sku":"9781476772073","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476772073_p0.jpg?v=1763610413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476772073","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}