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Yellow
Dog: the news, the novel
 | Amis's
U.S. reading tour--fall 2003.
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The first
two pages of Yellow Dog
(from Randomhouse.co.uk).
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| Down and Dirty
summary of
Yellow Dog (from The Bookseller--Bookseller (03.07.03); wwww.thebookseller.com):
A laughter for our times
In his first full-length novel since The Information, Martin Amis tells the
story of Xan Meo, an actor and writer, whose newly happy life with his second
wife and two young daughters is suddenly interrupted by a blow to the head from
a seemingly random attacker in a London street.
Xan is badly affected by his injury; his moral sense disintegrates and his
sexual impulses become aggressive. He comes close to attacking his much-loved
wife, as well as--in a horrifying episode for the reader--to molesting his
four-year-old daughter.
Xan's story is interwoven with that of a floridly comic English royal family, in
which an effete King Henry watches helplessly as his daughter, 15-year-old
Princess Victoria, becomes the subject of a pornographic film through covertly
recorded footage. Another narrative strand concerns a violent gangster, Joseph
Andrews. Meanwhile, Amis' latest great comic creation is Clint Smoker, a
muck-raking hack on the superbly sleazy Morning Lark, who compensates for his
minuscule genitals with a series of misogynist tirades under the byline "Yellow
Dog".
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