The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

Informationen zum Autor 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 readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023. Klappentext Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian and 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Amis, Amis Martin
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780099488699
• ISBN: 978-0-09-948869-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, HISTORY / Civilization, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Essays, General & world history, Terrorism, armed struggle, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Terrorist attack