Yellow Dog
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis, published by Vintage in 2004, is a literary work that delves into the complexities of identity and morality. This first edition spans 340 pages and presents a narrative centered around Xan Meo, who undergoes a dramatic personality shift following a violent incident. The story unfolds in a world filled with various characters, each embodying distinct moral frameworks, as they navigate the absurdities of contemporary life.
Readers will encounter a range of intertwined plots, including the lives of a yellow journalist, a hardman, and a porno tycoon, among others. The narrative explores themes of familial dysfunction and societal critique, with characters like Henry England grappling with personal and public crises. The book’s satirical tone and intricate character dynamics invite readers to reflect on the nature of morality and the human condition within a vividly depicted landscape.
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‘Martin Amis at his best… Wonderful… Extravagantly funny’ Guardian
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; the porno tycoon, Cora Susan; and Royce Traynor, the corpse in the hold of the stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down the plane that carries his spouse. Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zizhen; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed ‘intrusion’ which rivets the world – because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King.
‘As funny as Dead Babies, as blackly portentous as London Fields and as satirically on-the-nail as Money‘ Mail on Sunday
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