Yellow Dog
  • Published: 1 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099267591
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Yellow Dog

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1 Jun 2004
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A new reissue series of Martin Amis's novels to mark his 70th birthday


'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
  • Published: 1 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099267591
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis was the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. Amis died in May 2023.

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Praise for Yellow Dog

Amis is a force unto himself... There is, quite simply, no one else like him

Washington Post Book World

Raucously funny, relentlessly fast-paced, delightfully intricate... A marvelous novel, a powerful book, a work of pain and madness and love...a work of seriousness. A work of beauty

Baltimore Sun

A consummate stylist...constantly and intensely aware of the language he is using, the medium of his art

Daily Mail

His prose sparkles

Scotsman

His humour is a welcome change from the prevailing literary pietism

New Statesman

'Lucid... Daring... A blissful antidote to the arrhythmic stylelessness of so much contemporary fiction

Time Out

Mind tinglingly good... He seems to have guessed what you thought about the world, and then expressed it far better than you ever could... Here is a novel to silence the doubters...Amis has found a subject to match the tessellated polish of his style

Observer

[There] are moments of magical vigilance and great emotional delicacy, intimations of a quite different kind of writer that Amis could be, or would be, perhaps, were it not for the demands of his devastating comic gift

Guardian

As clever and convincing as ever

Sunday Telegraph

Martin Amis at his best... Wonderful... Extravagantly funny

Guardian