If in the twentyfirst century the moral reality is changing then the novelis changing too whether it likes it or not. <strong>Yellow Dog</strong> is an early ex... » 

If in the twentyfirst century the moral reality is changing then the novelis changing too whether it likes it or not. Yellow Dog is an early exampleof how the novel or more particularly the comic novel can respond to thistransformation. But Martin Amis is also concerned here with what is changelessand perhaps unchangeable patriarchy and the entire edifice of masculinitythe enormous categoryerror of violence arising between man and man thetortuous alliances between men and women and the vanished dream probablyalways an illusion but now a clear delusion that we can protect our futureand our progeny. «