Yellow Dog Martin Amis by Martin Amis 9780307368300, 0307368300 instant download after payment.

This dark, funny and relentlessly paced Martin Amis novel explores contemporary culture through a gallery of unique - and often unlovely - characters.

When Xan Meo is assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers both head injury, and a personality change. 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. Welcome to their inverted worlds: the ‘yellow’ journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; the porno tycoon, Cora Susan; and Royce Traynor, the vengeful corpse determined, even in death, to destroy his spouse.

"There are moments of pure comedy in Yellow Dog, but much of its humour is aimed at generating discomfort as well as laughter. It is grim stuff in many ways, but Yellow Dog is also a tightly constructed novel, bristling with ideas and allusions, and one that takes up many of the themes that have characterised Amis's previous work. Overall it is a novel in which the flaws are frequently eclipsed by moments of brilliance."   -   James Ley, The Age

Martin Amis is 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.