Book description
When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of
a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a
spiritual convert, 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.
We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the 'yellow' journalist,
Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; the porno
tycoon, Cora Susan; and Royce Traynor, the corpse in the hold of the
stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down
the plane that carries his spouse. Meanwhile, we explore the
entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his
Chinese mistress, He Zizhen; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria,
the victim of a filmed 'intrusion' which rivets the world - because
she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King.
Martin Amis is the author of thirteen novels, the memoir
Experience
, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most
recently
The Second Plane
. He lives in New York.
