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by Louise Welsh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (1 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184195280X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841952802
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 319,608 in Books (See Bestsellers 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.’

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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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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cracking Read, 7 Aug 2002
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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.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric, 11 Sep 2006
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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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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A cut above the rest, 9 Oct 2002
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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published 12 days ago by M. L. Hughes

2.0 out of 5 stars Tedious
A good start, but the story seems to lose its way towards the end. Having the hero absent from the grande finale might have been a mistake. Read more
Published 2 months ago by S. Arnott

3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read!
An auctioneer is called to a house clearing to be told by the old lady that there are items in the attic which are 'sensitive' and need to be handled by him alone. Read more
Published 9 months ago by booklover

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing!
I normally love books set in contemporary Scotland, big fan of Irvine Welsh, James Kelman etc. So was expecting good things after several people recommended this book to me. Read more
Published 13 months ago by E m C

2.0 out of 5 stars A shocking review
I must have read a different book from the majority of other reviewers, after a promising start I found this book tiresome and predictable. Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2005 by thebestboothy

4.0 out of 5 stars I never saw it coming!
Thoroughly enjoyable read. Very scotish. Very real. Excellent characterisation.The sex seemed a little incongruous though - it didn't add anything. Read more
Published on 26 Oct 2004 by Mr. C. Berry

3.0 out of 5 stars An average read...
Throughout, the author shows her ability to use language in a lyrical, sophisticated manner but I'm afraid this is spoilt too often by the more clumsy aspects of her writing... Read more
Published on 1 Jul 2004 by sky_lit_up

2.0 out of 5 stars overrated - a disappointment
I continue to be appalled that this book has won three prizes for its author. It may be considered a good debut, compared to others which are truly abysmal, but is amateurishly... Read more
Published on 27 April 2004 by flower pot

5.0 out of 5 stars A disturbing and compelling first novel
Its a rare thing to discover a first novel of this quality. I am tempted to compare Louise Welsh with Dickens, Peter Ackroyd, PD James, and all the other "greats" of fiction... Read more
Published on 29 Feb 2004 by A Common Reader

2.0 out of 5 stars irritating and forced
I'll start with the positive: this book was very readable from the start and some of the characters were at times endearing. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2004 by drexciya

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