It’s Been a Lot of Fun
David Runciman: Hitchens’s Hitchens, 24 June 2010
Hitch-22: A Memoir
by Christopher Hitchens.
Atlantic, 435 pp., £20, June 2010,978 1 84354 921 5 Show More
by Christopher Hitchens.
Atlantic, 435 pp., £20, June 2010,
“... In his book about religion, Peter Hitchens has a lot more to say about his brother Christopher than Christopher has to say about Peter in his book about himself.* ‘Some brothers get on,’ Peter writes mournfully, ‘some do not. We were the sort that just didn’t.’ He continues: At one stage – I was about nine, he nearly 12 – my poor gentle father actually persuaded us to sign a peace treaty in the hope of halting our feud ... ”