Book summarySometime in the future, when the king of England is Henry IX, an actor and screenwriter named Xan Meo is beaten up on a London street by thugs who mumble something about JOSEPH ANDREWS, a 1742 novel by Henry Fielding. When Meo recovers, he is a changed man, and his formerly blissful marriage is seriously endangered. Joseph Andrews turns out to be not an 18th-century novel but a retired gangster. The king's nubile daughter is featured in a porno film. And the eponymous "yellow dog" is a singularly unpleasant tabloid writer named Clint Smoker. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. Media reviews"[Y]our first reaction on reading a novel as mind-tinglingly good as YELLOW DOG is not so much admiration as a kind of grateful despair. Mostly this is because, like all great writers, he seems to have guessed what you thought about the world, and then expressed it far better than you ever could." |
Yellow Dogby Amis, MartinFirst Ed USA, First Printing stated.
Book desription: New York, NY Miramax Books, 2003. Hardback with DJ. First Ed USA, First Printing stated. First Ed USA, First Printing stated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ shows only minute indications of use. Book shows binding almost perfectly square and secure; text clean. DJ shows crease at inside front flap; else pristine; unclipped. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 340pp. The prose is brilliant and often hilarious, and the insights into contemporary culture are disturbingly prescient. Thanks to Amis's pitch-perfect dialogue, his I-can't-believe-he-wrote-that humor and his perceptive critique of contemporary morals, this is a novel of many pleasures-and a novel to be reckoned with. Not Inscribed or Signed by Author.
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