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Sat 04 Apr 2007Surviving in the wreckageFictionDon DeLillo's new novel is the finest literary achievement yet inspired by 9/11They came on a clear, bright morning, the aeroplanes - the aircraft that crashed into the towers, changing America, changing everything, forever. The attack on the US marked the formal beginning of our enduring age of terrorism. All the horrors that had happened before that September day were suddenly reduced to a lurid overture. Now we exist within a marathon opera of fear and no one knows when the next act will begin.