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The
2005 Award
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Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| 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. Yellow Dog is a comic masterpiece, darkly in tune with the endlessly shifting moral values of our troubled planet. It is also concerned with 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 women; and the vanished dream that we can protect our future and our progeny. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Martin Amis is the author of nine novels, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. Koba the Dread, the successor to his celebrated memoir, Experience, was published in 2002. |
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