Shave for them
Christian Lorentzen: ‘The Submission’, 22 September 2011
The Submission
by Amy Waldman.
Heinemann, 299 pp., £12.99, September 2011,978 0 434 01932 8 Show More
by Amy Waldman.
Heinemann, 299 pp., £12.99, September 2011,
“... Amy Waldman proceeds from a simple counterfactual premise: what if the memorial for the attacks of 11 September 2001 set off something like the 1981 controversy over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial? The now famous design for the angled black granite walls, carved with the names of the 58,000 US war dead and cut into the ground on the Mall in Washington DC, was selected through a blind competition ... ”