HITCH 22 BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, ALLEN & UNWIN, $35.
A memoir from the thinking woman’s crumpled crumpet, the dishevelled but always wildly articulate Christopher Hitchens.
The younger son of a British naval officer and an effervescent beauty, he overhears them plotting his future: “If there is going to be an upper class in this country, then Christopher is going to be in it”. And so on to Oxford, Fleet Street and a gilded life as a writer, commentator and self-styled contrarian. Hitchens tells all, from his dramatic conversion from lion of the Left to passionate supporter of American capitalism, to his astonishing capacity for hard work and alcohol. His two wives don’t get much of a look-in – his true love turns out to be novelist Martin Amis. The writing is brilliant and his most savage lines are saved for himself.
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