Posted on 29/10/03
The need for snarks and other literary beasts
Martin Amis's new novel Yellow Dog is now available in Canadian bookstores, so you can judge for yourself whether it's as embarrassing as catching your favourite uncle masturbating in the school yard, to paraphrase one British writer, or a fairly successful piece of Swiftian satire, as it seemed to the reviewer who, with the dignified restraint so common among Canadian literary critics, evaluated it in these pages Saturday.
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