- Hardcover: 294 pages
- Publisher: Canongate Pub. (Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841953830
- ISBN-13: 978-1841953830
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,308,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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THE DARK SIDE of Glasgow lies behind this black, erotic thriller. Homosexual antique dealer Rilke is commissioned to sell at auction the entire contents of a deceased old man's estate. What seems a straightforward deal turns suspicious upon the discovery of a hidden collection of erotica, secreted away in a loft. The chance unearthing of a packet of disturbing photographs sets Rilke on a trail through Glasgow's pornography industry in search of answers. Transvestites, rent boys, sadists and the generally sexually perverted all make an appearance, the possibility of snuff activities dangling over the story till the finale. Deceit, double-dealing and degradation fill the pages with the self-effacing, downward spiralling Rilke at the centre, trying to cling to reality and his sanity through a drunken haze induced by the horrors he has found. Homoerotic, this is not a book for the sexually squeamish. Newcomer Louise Welsh writes with unusual candour, succinctly capturing the various sexual persuasions and preferences mankind has always chased. Her easy style ensnares the reader, drawing them down to the dregs of depravity at the same time as tantalisingly teasing the plot along till its climactic ending. - Lucy Watson
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Astonishingly this is a first novel, catapulting Welsh straight into the superstar league, while establishing Rilke as a classic original.
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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cracking Read,
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This review is from: The Cutting Room (Paperback)
This is a great book and I can't recommend it strongly enough. Loved everthing about it; great plot, great characters, great dialogue, brilliant evocation of seemier side to Glasgow, beautiful obsevation and none of the self consciously "fine writing" that spoils so many new British novels, nice and meaty and real. Nice use of quotations too and I really enjoyed all the references to Romanticism and Scottish literature (The drinks bar is called Gilmartin's, from the Justified Sinner). I can't remember reading a new book that was so generous to the reader in providing plain old fashioned reading pleasure, there's even (rarest of joys) a great ending with a real sense of closure. Just fabulous.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A cut above the rest,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Cutting Room (Paperback)
This book restored my faith in crime fiction! A dark story, set in a dark city, with a wonderfully dysfunctional hero. Beautifully written and tensely plotted, this is a class act for a first novel.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Atmospheric,
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An atmospheric thriller, based upon an auctioneer's discovery of violent pornographic photographs during a house clearance, with homosexuality, brooding sexual tension and an ever-present sense of imminent menace thrown in for good measure.
Louise Welsh has a light touch in her writing, lending a subtlety to the dark and troubling scenes she creates; relationships, both on the one-to-one level of brute sexual desire and in the wider sense of man's relationship to man, are convincingly portrayed. Two rather stilted homilies towards the end of the book, on people trafficking and the behaviour during the Orange Walk, therefore sit rather uneasily in the context. All in all, however, this is a satisfyingly challenging read.
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