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Yellow Dog

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

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 hard men, 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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Martin
Amis

Martin Amis is the author of twelve previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most recently The Second Plane. He lives in New York.

Martin Amis is the author of twelve previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most recently The Second Plane. He lives in New York.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
29/11/2024
Country
England
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape, Miramax Books

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