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The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

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A collection of short stories of the author including "In the Place of the End" and "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta", and essays and reviews.

Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, ''It was the advent ...

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Product ID:9780099488699
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Title:The Second Plane
Subtitle:September 11, 2001-2007
Authors:Author: Martin Amis
Page Count:224
Subjects:Biography and non-fiction prose, Prose: non-fiction, General and world history, Social and cultural history, Terrorism, armed struggle, General & world history, Social & cultural history, Terrorist attack
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A collection of short stories of the author including "In the Place of the End" and "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta", and essays and reviews.

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.''

He has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, ''In the Palace 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.''


Imprint Name:Vintage
Publisher Name:Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2009-01-01