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The second plane

A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time. At the heart of this collection is the long essay "Terror and Boredom," an unsparing analysis of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's flummoxed response to it, while other pieces address the invasion of Iraq, the realities of Iran, and Tony Blair's lingering departure from Downing Street (and also his trips to Washington and Iraq). Whether lambasted for his refusal to kowtow to Muslim pieties or hailed for his common sense, wide reading, and astute perspective, Amis is indisputably a great pleasure to read'informed, elegant, surprising'and this collection a resounding contemplation of the relentless, manifold dangers we suddenly find ourselves living with. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "11. září 2001-2007"
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  • "Ce recueil rassemble par ordre chronologique, les textes que M. Amis a consacrés aux attentats du 11 septembre 2001 et à leurs conséquences. Ils se composent d'articles, tribunes libres, reportages, tous parus dans la presse britannique et américaine, de comptes-rendus d'ouvrages consacrés à l'islamisme et de deux nouvelles."
  • "A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time. At the heart of this collection is the long essay "Terror and Boredom," an unsparing analysis of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's flummoxed response to it, while other pieces address the invasion of Iraq, the realities of Iran, and Tony Blair's lingering departure from Downing Street (and also his trips to Washington and Iraq). Amis's reviews of pertinent books and films, from The Looming Tower to United 93, provide a far-ranging survey of other responses to these calamitous issues, which are further explored in two short stories: "The Last Days of Muhammed Atta," its subject self-evident, and "In the Palace of the End," narrated by a Middle Eastern tyrant's double whose duties include epic lovemaking, grotesque torture, and the duplication on his own body of the injuries sustained by his alter ego in constant assassination attempts. Whether lambasted for his refusal to kowtow to Muslim pieties or hailed for his common sense, wide reading, and astute perspective, Amis is indisputably a great pleasure to read - informed, elegant, surprising - and this collection a resounding contemplation of the relentless, manifold dangers we suddenly find ourselves living with."
  • "A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time. At the heart of this collection is the long essay "Terror and Boredom," an unsparing analysis of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's flummoxed response to it, while other pieces address the invasion of Iraq, the realities of Iran, and Tony Blair's lingering departure from Downing Street (and also his trips to Washington and Iraq). Whether lambasted for his refusal to kowtow to Muslim pieties or hailed for his common sense, wide reading, and astute perspective, Amis is indisputably a great pleasure to read'informed, elegant, surprising'and this collection a resounding contemplation of the relentless, manifold dangers we suddenly find ourselves living with. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "These chronologically ordered essays and stories on the September 11 attacks proceed from initial bewilderment to coruscating contempt for radical Islam. Novelist Amis (House of Meetings) rejects all religious belief as "without reason and without dignity" and condemns "Islamism" as an especially baleful variant. Amis attacks Islamism's tenets as "[a]nti-Semitic, anti-liberal, anti-individualist, anti-democratic" and characterizes its adherents, from founding ideologue Sayyid Qutb to the ordinary suicide bomber, as sexually frustrated misogynists entranced by a "cult of death." He also takes swipes at Bush and the Iraq war, which he describes as botched and tragically counterproductive, if well intentioned, but scorns those who draw a moral equivalence between Western misdeeds and the jihadist agenda. Amis's concerns are cultural and aesthetic as well as existential: terrorism threatens a reign of "boredom" in the guise of tedious airport security protocols, pedantic conspiracy theories and the dogma-shackled "dependent mind" fostered by Islamist theocracy. As much as Amis's opinions are scathing, blunt and occasionally strident, his prose is subtle, elegant and witty-and certainly never boring. (Apr.) Copyrigh."

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  • "English short stories"
  • "Anglické povídky"
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  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
  • "Nouvelles anglaises"

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  • "Il secondo aereo : 11 settembre 2001-2007"@it
  • "Druhé letadlo : 11. září 2001-2007"
  • "The second plane september 11: 2001-2007"
  • "Le deuxième avion"
  • "Le deuxième avion : 11 septembre: 2001-2007"
  • "The second plane : September 11, 2001-2007"
  • "The second plane"@en
  • "The second plane"
  • "El Segundo avión : 11 de septiembre: 2001-2007"
  • "The second plane : September 11 : terror and boredom"
  • "The second plane : September 11 : terror and boredom"@en
  • "El segundo avión : 11 de septiembre, 2001-2007"@es
  • "The second plane September 11 : terror and boredom"@en
  • "The second plane : September 11 : 2001-2007"
  • "The second plane : september 11:2001-2007"
  • "The second plane : September 11: 2001-2007"@en
  • "The second plane : September 11: 2001-2007"
  • "Het tweede vliegtuig"
  • "The second plane : September 11: 2001 - 2007"
  • "Il secondo aereo : 11 settembre: 2001-2007"

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