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Article: Martin Amis versus the modern world; The stylistic panache is intact but the scenes no longer fit together.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Byline: ROBERT MACFARLANE
YELLOW DOG
by Martin Amis (Cape, [pounds sterling]16.99)
MARTIN Amis has always styled himself as among the most "street" of contemporary novelists. For 20 years he has been our man in the gutter, slumming it with the poor and the nasty. Down into the dark cantonments of London he has gone, and in book after book he has returned bearing detailed reports of the underclass. His novels identify him as a connoisseur of the unfortunate, an expert in their "alien moralities", in their walks - "the pimp roll" of the young men in London Fields - and in the texture of their skin: its "cheese-and-onion crisp" consistency (The ...
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