The Second Plane
Author: Amis, Martin
ISBN: 9780099488699
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 02 Mar 2009
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
One of BritainP#39;s finest writers confronts the P#39;defining momentP#39; of the 21st century.
Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for Plt;iPgt;ThePlt;/iPgt; Plt;iPgt;Guardian Plt;/iPgt;beginning, P#39;It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.P#39; Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;He has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, P#39;In the Palace of the EndP#39; and P#39;The Last Days of Muhammad AttaP#39;. 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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;P#39;We are arriving at an axiom in long-term thinking about international terrorism,P#39; he writes: P#39;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.P#39;
ISBN: 9780099488699
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 02 Mar 2009
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
One of BritainP#39;s finest writers confronts the P#39;defining momentP#39; of the 21st century.
Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for Plt;iPgt;ThePlt;/iPgt; Plt;iPgt;Guardian Plt;/iPgt;beginning, P#39;It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.P#39; Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;He has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, P#39;In the Palace of the EndP#39; and P#39;The Last Days of Muhammad AttaP#39;. 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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;P#39;We are arriving at an axiom in long-term thinking about international terrorism,P#39; he writes: P#39;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.P#39;
