The Second Plane

September 11, 2001-2007

Martin Amis

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English

Vintage
02 March 2009

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Prose: non-fiction; Short stories; General & world history; Social & cultural history; Terrorist attack

One of Britain's finest writers confronts the 'defining moment' of the 21st century.

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.'

By: Martin Amis
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9780099488699
ISBN 10: 0099488698
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 March 2009
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

Entertaining, witty, thoughtful and sometimes discomforting * Independent * A stylist with the trick of defamiliarising the familiar, he is also a keen student of the public realm...we should prize him - for his engagement as well as his gifts * Guardian * Trenchant, deeply informed and informative...an important volume * Independent on Sunday * Possibly the most fully engaged writer of our age -- David Aaronovitch * The Times * Essential reading * Observer *