Yellow Dog

by Amis, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781401352035
• ISBN10: 1401352030
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-05
• Publisher: Miramax

Summary

After Xan Meo is brutally attacked in the garden of a London pub and suffers a severe head trauma, his wife and daughters find they are living with a stranger -- unpredictable, violent, vengeful, lost: "His condition felt like the twenty-first century: it was something you wanted to wake up from." While it may alarm his family, Xan's new personality is a good match for the city and the age in which he lives. For this is the vicious London of tabloid journalist Clint Smoker, whose daily reports of illicit sex and outrageous scandal are every bit as fake (and artful) as the noose tattooed around his neck. This is a world where the King of England keeps a Chinese mistress in Paris and tries to suppress a video-taped, bathtub "intrusion" of his fifteen-year-old daughter from reaching the internet. A world of hit men, pornographers, tycoons, and displaced royalty. A world where brilliant people perform unspeakable acts and bodyguards provide no protection. Yellow Dog is Martin Amis at his dazzling best -- comic, fierce, gritty, and profound. Amis explores what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable: patriarchy and the entire edifice of masculinity; the violence arising between man and man; the tortuous alliances between men and woman; and the vanished dream that we can protect our future and our progeny. Book jacket.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

PART I
CHAPTER ONE
1. Renaissance Man	3	(12)
2. Hal Nine	15	(7)
3. Clint Smoker	22	(10)
101 Heavy	32	(1)
CHAPTER TWO
1. The transfer to Trauma	33	(7)
2. Doing Beryl	40	(10)
3. On the Royal Train	50	(9)
101 Heavy	59	(3)
CHAPTER THREE
1. The publicity of knowledge	62	(7)
2. The high-IQ moron	69	(9)
3. Excalibur	78	(10)
101 Heavy	88	(1)
CHAPTER FOUR
1. The thing which is called world	89	(13)
2. His Voluminousness	102	(13)
3. Cold Blow Lane	115	(15)
101 Heavy	130	(2)
CHAPTER FIVE
1. In the master bedroom	132	(13)
2. Storm in a teacup	145	(13)
3. Car-sweat	158	(16)
101 Heavy	174	(5)
PART II
CHAPTER SIX
1. The Decembrist	179	(4)
2. Cora Susan	183	(5)
3. Denizen	188	(2)
4. At Ewelme	190	(2)
5. 101 Heavy	192	(2)
6. Apologia - 1	194	(6)
7. We two	200	(3)
8. Use Your Head	203	(4)
9. Epithalamium	207	(5)
CHAPTER SEVEN
1. We will go quietly	212	(5)
2. Weird sister	217	(3)
3. King Bastard	220	(3)
4. Cora's call on Pearl	223	(3)
5. Its Not Unusual	226	(5)
6. Size zero - 1	231	(7)
7. Size zero - 2	238	(7)
8. Not knowing again	245	(3)
9. To Otherville	248	(6)
CHAPTER EIGHT
1. 101 Heavy	254	(1)
2. The face has holes in it	255	(5)
3. Apologia - 2 Keith the Snake	260	(6)
4. Yellow Tongue	266	(9)
5. Cur moment	275	(4)
6. 101 Heavy	279	(6)
PART III
CHAPTER NINE
1. The syrups of the sky	285	(5)
2. Sickout at Dolorosa Drive	290	(3)
3. The principle of lullabies	293	(6)
4. Anger of the just	299	(5)
5. The Sextown Sniper	304	(2)
6. Men in power	306	(3)
CHAPTER TEN
1. 101 Heavy	309	(1)
2. Clint prepares	310	(1)
3. Waking in the cold	311	(1)
4. Leather on willow	312	(1)
5. 101 Heavy	313	(1)
6. What do princesses want?	314	(2)
7. Simon Finger	316	(1)
8. The vestal follow	317	(4)
9. 101 Heavy	321	(2)
LAST CHAPTER
1. Courtly love	323	(3)
2. k8	326	(2)
3. The edge of the earth	328	(2)
4. 101 Heavy	330	(2)
5. Yellow dog	332	(6)
6. When they were small	338