Recensione:
“The Second Plane bristles with intelligence [and] snaps and snarls.” –Warren Bass, The Washington Post
“Amis’ work is never dull, never deferential to received wisdom...These pieces are angry, bracingly witty [and] cold as a frozen pipe...In an era of excessive self-consciousness, his brave, loud ferocity slaps us out of our comfortable pieties.” –Diane Roberts, St. Petersburg Times
“A choreographer of imagination and ideas, [Amis] is bracing and morally brave.” –Jim Sleeper, Los Angeles Times
“Possibly the most fully engaged writer of our age.” —The Times (UK)
“Powerful and prescient...Behind the endlessly inventive language [is] an intellectual rigour based on an unwavering belief in the power of reason.” —Financial Times
“Amis is doing exactly what we all must: thinking, growing, reassessing.” —Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York (5 stars)
“Genuinely brave.” —Adam Kirsch, New York Sun
“A walking tour of the motley post-September 11th mind–its fears, madnesses, misapprehension and insights.” —Tom Bissell, New York Observer
“[The Second Plane] fires a welcome, left-tending salvo...Amis proves eminently readable, his observations enlightening.” —Kirkus Reviews
“In this bracing and corrective collection of intense and perceptive responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Amis is doing far more than performing literary pyrotechnics or playing provocateur...[He] writes with vehemence, daring and verve because he schools himself in harsh truths, and because he cares.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist
“[Amis’s] prose is subtle, elegant and witty–and certainly never boring.” —Publisher’s Weekly
L'autore:
Martin Amis’s most recent novel is House of Meetings, and his best sellers include Money, London Fields, and The Information, as well as his memoir, Experience. He lives in London.
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