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The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007: September 11, 2001-2007, The

The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007: September 11, 2001-2007, The

by Martin Amis (Author)

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Synopsis

Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.' And he has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, 'In the Place of the End' and 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta'. All are collected here, together with an expanded account of his travels with Tony Blair in 2007 - to Belfast, to Washington, and to Baghdad and Basra. 'We are arriving at an axiom in long-term thinking about international terrorism,' he writes: 'the real danger lies, not in what it inflicts, but in what it provokes. Thus by far the gravest consequence of September 11, to date, is Iraq ...Meanwhile, September 11 continues, it goes on, with all its mystery, its instability, and its terrible dynamism.'

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Edition: First edition
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 31 Jan 2008
ISBN 10: 0224076108
ISBN 13: 9780224076104
Book Overview: One of Britain's finest writers confronts the 'defining moment' of the 21st century.

Media Reviews
[Amis is a] writer who is arguably the most gifted stylist of his generation, and who may be genetically incapable of a dull sentence . . . The Second Plane and the furor surrounding its inception represent the debate an open and confident society should be willing to sustain about such fundamental, if difficult, matters. - Toronto Star

The Second Plane is an essential snapshot of a moment in time, of private reactions to a world in transition set against a collective anger and despair. - Edmonton Journal

Novelist Martin Amis's bent for punchy sentences and reason-as-the-only-fit-yardstick geopolitical analysis both surface early in this provocative collection of non-fiction essays, reviews and short stories. . . . Tough, and controversial, stances abound in The Second Plane. . . . Amis's command of language is a joy to read. - Winnipeg Free Press
The great value of this book is that it does not permit us the armchair luxury of relativizing or compartmentalizing the War on Terror. By shifting the stage from the local to the global and raising the bar from the actual to the potential, Amis holds both sides to the same standards. - The Gazette
Amis is a highly intuitive writer. . . . The views Amis presents are worth reading for their wit, their vibrant phrasing, their ring of conviction. - National Post
[V]erbal thrill . . .[Amis's] writing remains capable of anything - The Observer

What Amis [has] really done, as the chronologically ordered pieces in this collection demonstrate, was to go on a political journey. . . . [P]ossibly the most fully engaged writer of our age. - The Times

Amis is famously audacious, sardonic, andexcoriating. But in this bracing and corrective collection of intense and perceptive responses to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . . . Amis is doing far more than performing literary pyrotechnics or playing provocateur. . . . [He] writes with vehemence, daring, and verve because he schools himself in harsh truths, and because he cares. - Booklist

From the Hardcover edition.

Author Bio
Martin Amis is the author of ten novels, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in London.