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9780224050616

Yellow Dog

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  • ISBN13:

    9780224050616

  • ISBN10:

    0224050613

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-09-04
  • Publisher: Gardners Books
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Summary

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 Kent Price, 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 Zhezun; 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. The connections between these characters provide the pattern and drive of YELLOW DOG. Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future. If, in the twenty-first century, the moral reality is changing, then the novel is changing too, whether it likes it or not. YELLOW DOG is an early example 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.

Author Biography

Martin Amis's most recent book was Koba the Dread. He lives in London

Table of Contents

Renaissance Manp. 3
Hal Ninep. 15
Clint Smokerp. 22
101 Heavyp. 32
The transfer to Traumap. 33
Doing Berylp. 40
On the Royal Trainp. 50
101 Heavyp. 59
The publicity of knowledgep. 62
The high-IQ moronp. 69
Excaliburp. 78
101 Heavyp. 88
The thing which is called worldp. 89
His Voluminousnessp. 102
Cold Blow Lanep. 115
101 Heavyp. 130
In the master bedroomp. 132
Storm in a teacupp. 145
Car-sweatp. 158
101 Heavyp. 174
The Decembristp. 179
Cora Susanp. 183
Denizenp. 188
At Ewelmep. 190
101 Heavyp. 192
Apologia--1p. 194
We twop. 200
Use Your Headp. 203
Epithalamiump. 207
We will go quietlyp. 212
Weird sisterp. 217
King Bastardp. 220
Cora's call on Pearlp. 223
It's Not Unusualp. 226
Size zero--1p. 231
Size zero--2p. 238
Not knowing againp. 245
To Othervillep. 248
101 Heavyp. 254
The face has holes in itp. 255
Apologia--2: Keith the Snakep. 260
Yellow Tonguep. 266
Cur momentp. 275
101 Heavyp. 279
The syrups of the skyp. 285
Sickout at Dolorosa Drivep. 290
The principle of lullabiesp. 293
Anger of the justp. 299
The Sextown Sniperp. 304
Men in powerp. 306
101 Heavyp. 309
Clint preparesp. 310
Waking in the coldp. 311
Leather on willowp. 312
101 Heavyp. 313
What do princesses want?p. 314
Simon Fingerp. 316
The vestal followp. 317
101 Heavyp. 321
Last Chapter
Courtly lovep. 323
k8p. 326
The edge of the earthp. 328
101 Heavyp. 330
Yellow dogp. 332
When they were smallp. 338
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