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23%OFFMartin Amis - The Second Plane: September 11: 2001-2007 - 9780099488699 - V9780099488699
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The Second Plane: September 11: 2001-2007

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Description for The Second Plane: September 11: 2001-2007 Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099488699
SKU
V9780099488699
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About Martin Amis
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his ... Read more

Reviews for The Second Plane: September 11: 2001-2007
Essential reading
Observer
Possibly the most fully engaged writer of our age
David Aaronovitch
The Times
Trenchant, deeply informed and informative...an important volume
Independent on Sunday
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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Second Plane: September 11: 2001-2007


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