num_pages: 352
description: Explores the complex lives of five very different men, including Xan Meo, a one-time familial paragon who suffers a personality change following a brutal assault, and King Henry IX of England, whose life is complicated by his incapacitated wife.
language: English
title: Yellow Dog
titlecomplete: Yellow Dog
characters: Clint Smoker, Cora Susan, Xan Meo
genres: Modern, Unfinished, 21st Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 1960
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Vintage