Unarguably the end of the line for Hitchens, atheist, intellectual and 'charmer'

By Susan Wyndham
Updated November 10 2012 - 2:55am, first published December 16 2011 - 1:15pm
"?Looking death more closely in the eye, as I have been doing, doesn?t teach you much that you don?t already know, surprisingly" ... Christopher Hitchens.
"?Looking death more closely in the eye, as I have been doing, doesn?t teach you much that you don?t already know, surprisingly" ... Christopher Hitchens.

FOR Australians who saw Christopher Hitchens, the robust polemicist, in a linen suit with a glass in his hand onstage in Sydney last year, it is hard to believe that he has died at 62 from oesophageal cancer.

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