Yellow dog / Martin Amis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amis, Martin.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Black humor (Literature)

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

340 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Vintage International edition.

Other Title:

Yellow dog : a novel

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage International, 2005.

Summary:

Martin Amis's brilliant and controversial new novel, already hailed in the British press as "Dickens with a snarl" and a "great comic extravagance." 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 women; and the vanished dream that we can protect our future and our progeny.

Contents:

PART I. CHAPTER ONE. 1. Renaissance Man

2. Hal Nine

3. Clint Smoker

Heavy

- CHAPTER TWO. 1. The transfer to Trauma

2. Doing Beryl

3. On the Royal Train

- CHAPTER THREE. 1. The publicity of know/ledge

2. The high-IQ moron

3. Excalibur

- CHAPTER FOUR. 1. The thing which is called world

2. His Voluminousness

3. Cold Blow Lane

- CHAPTER FIVE. 1. In the master bedroom

2. Storm in a teacup

3. Car-sweat

PART II. CHAPTER SIX. 1. The Decembrist

2. Cora Susan

3. Denizen

4. At Ewelme

5. Heavy

6. Apologia

7. We two

8. Use Your Head

9. Epithalamium

- CHAPTER SEVEN. 1. We will go quietly

2. Weird sister

3. King Bastard

4. Cora's call on Pearl

5. It's Not Unusual

6. Sire zero

1

7. Sire zero

2

8. Not knowing again

9. To Otherville

CHAPTER EIGHT. 1. Heavy

2. The face has holes in it

3. Apologia

2: Keith the Snake

4. Yellow Tongue

5. Cur moment

6. Heavy

PART III. CHAPTER NINE. 1. The syrups of the sky

2. Sickout at Dolorosa Drive

3. The principle of lullabies

4. Anger of the just

5. The Sextown Sniper

6. Men in power

CHAPTER TEN. 1. Heavy

2. Clint prepares

3. Waking in the cold

4. Leather on willow

6. What do princesses want?

7. Simon Finger

8. The vestal follow

9. Heavy

LAST CHAPTER. 1. Courtly love

2. K8 326

3. The edge of the earth

4. HeavY

5. Yellow dog

6. When they were small.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Miramax Books, c2003.

ISBN:

1400077273

9781400077274

OCLC:

58747931