- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; First Edition edition (1 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184195280X
- ISBN-13: 978-1841952802
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 914,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Sunday Times
‘A stunning work of fiction’ ‘One of the most intriguing assured and unputdownable debuts to come out of Scotland in recent years.’
The Times
‘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
Format: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
Format: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
Format:Paperback
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.
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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cracking on many levels
This is one of the best crime novels [and therefore just novels as crime is the new litfic] ever in terms of plot. Read more
Published 5 days ago by burns57
Very dark....
Louise Welsh is a talented writer - although I have to say that this book shouted "literary crime fiction" a bit too loudly in parts. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Wynne Kelly
Couldn't recommend highly enough!
This really is one of my favourite books. It is so well written, so even if the story line doesn't necessarily appeal, I would still recommend you read it just to be able to see... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Georgina
Ran out of steam
The initial set-up is very good -- the grimy characters, the rainy city, the big mysterious house with the big mysterious attic, the disturbing secrets -- and I stayed with it... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Gaviano
Superb
This book was recommended to me from a member of staff at a high-street bookstore. Quite new to this genre however I was not disappointed. Read more
Published 16 months ago by fragglerock
Incoherent
This reads like a collage of bits attempted and abandoned, with no natural movenment from scene to scene. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Anglosa Jones
Excellent with a few niggles
This book gripped me from the beginning and I couldn't put it down despite the sluggish writing in the middle. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Helena
The cutting room
The book arrived swiftly and in good condition. Interesting story but not as explicit as advertised.
Published 19 months ago by Mr. S. Thomson
the cutting room
I enjoyed this book as I live in Glasgow where the story was set and I could relate to the places mentioned in the story.
Published on 29 May 2010 by lucy lou
Good & Bad, but a tale worth hearing
I expected great things from this novel, but didn't quite get them all.
There are both poor and excellent elements to "The Cutting Room"; the storyline itself is... Read more
There are both poor and excellent elements to "The Cutting Room"; the storyline itself is... Read more
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