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Report from Ground Zero.(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 25-MAR-02

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Report from Ground Zero, by Dennis Smith (Viking; $24.95). The firstperson narratives in this account of the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center constitute a tremendously powerful chronicle of September 11th. The language of the firefighters and police officers is blunt and vivid, the details are sharply etched, and the fractured stories -- particularly of those who were inside the towers but somehow escaped -- offer a Cubist vision of the day's chaos. The book's description of the disaster's aftermath is less successful: Smith conveys the ritualistic and...

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