Yellow Dog
(Martin Amis)
Yellow Dog has no less than four major narrative strands, told first in separate chapters and then tending to some overlap.
This part of the novel perhaps suggests yet another form of male revenge on women (the dead husband teaching his wife sitting in the airplane one last lesson) or proof that even when dead men can wreak havoc, but it has essentially nothing to do with the rest of the novel.
Infant daughter Sophie instinctively knows there''s something very wrong (in one of the too-frequent dreadful bits of writing in the novel Amis describes her high-pitched screaming reaction: "She saw his face -- and all the dogs of London must have snapped to attention").
(Xan''s first wife tells someone that Billie is Xan''s "four-year-old and a sexy little minx according to the boys", yet another of the awkwardly unreal touches in the book: what youth would describe (or see) his pre-school-age half-sister as in any way ''sexy'' ?) Yellow Dog is also full of violence.
The woman fare somewhat better, but Amis isn''t much interested in their lives or success, and doesn''t know how to describe it, preferring to wallow in male failure (in all its variations).
(It''s also a book filled with bodily functions described with coprophilic ardour, and many of the fame-related scenes seem merely to have been vomited forth.) There''s some fine writing in Yellow Dog, some good scenes and ideas.
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