Amis, Martin: The Second Plane. First Edition/First Printing. *Signed*

This is a first edition and first printing of The Second Plane by Martin Amis, published by Jonathan Cape in 2008.

The book and protected dust jacket are in Fine condition with no inscriptions and not price clipped.

Signed by the author to the title page.

Description:

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.’ And he has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, 'In the Palce 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.' 

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