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Brilliant, painful, dazzling, and funny as hell, Yellow Dog is Martin Amis’ highly anticipated first novel in seven years and a stunning return to the fictional form. When “dream husband” Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head injury, and personality change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system -- one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the “yellow” journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; and the porno tycoon, Cora Susan. Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zhezun; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed “intrusion” that rivets the world -- because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King. The connections between these characters provide the pattern and drive of Yellow Dog. If, in the 21st century, the moral reality is changing, then the novel is changing too, whether it likes it or not. Yellow Dog is a model of how the novel, or more particularly the comic novel, can respond to this transformation. But Martin Amis is also concerned here with what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable. Patriarchy, and the entire edifice of masculinity; the enormous category-error of violence, arising between man and man; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanished dream (probably always an illusion, but now a clear delusion) that we can protect our future and our progeny. Meo heard no footsteps; what he heard was the swish, the shingly soft-shoe of the hefted sap. Then the sharp two-finger prod on his shoulder. It wasn’t meant to happen like this. They expected him to turn and he didn’t turn -- he half-turned, then veered and ducked. So the blow intended merely to break his cheekbone or his jawbone was instead received by the cranium, that spacey bulge (in this instance still quite marriageably forested) where so many delicate and important powers are so trustingly encased. He crashed, he crunched to his knees, in obliterating defeat. . . . -- from Yellow Dog From the Hardcover edition.

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I just don't know what to say. It's like a friend has invited you around for dinner, and they put it down on the table, and somehow they don't seem to be aware that they left it too close to the cat's litter tray. One sniff is enough that you'...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:42:42 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 15:02:43 -0800 2009
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An idiot king, a helpful servant, a scandal to be reckoned with.

Exactly the stuff we need in this day and age: another Black Adder.

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Only read a few of Amis's things, and he has yet to disappoint. He is funny and quite acerbic. He has a knack for creating these characters that have something of contemporary British archetype about them. And he mixes a goo...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Dec 02 11:35:50 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 15:07:56 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 13:40:48 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 13:44:03 -0800 2007 Money by Martin Amis and ejoyed it but this was too silly with too many different story lines that all come together in a silly way. The price was right and it did make some funny points of contemporary British culture but I wouldn't recommen...more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed May 16 14:14:26 -0700 2007 Wed May 16 14:14:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Feb 18 01:41:44 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 18 01:42:08 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Mon Aug 06 06:13:51 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 06:19:59 -0700 2007 1 0 false false Tue Dec 04 17:23:11 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 17:25:51 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Thu Oct 04 19:15:28 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 16:00:43 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89099