Name: The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
SKU: 6238879
Price: 541.00 TWD
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Author: Martin Amis
ISBN: 9780099488699

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The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

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Physical Book

Author

Martin Amis

Publisher

Vintage

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

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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Martin Amis (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) studied at Oxford and made a brilliant debut as a novelist with The Rachel Papers, awarded in 1973 with the Somerset Maugham Award, published in Spain (in 1985) by Anagrama. Throughout his career, he worked as a screenwriter and several of his novels were adapted for television. He is the author of short stories, essays, and novels. He has two autobiographical books: Experience and Koba the Dread. His last work was Inside Story.

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