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by Louise Welsh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 294 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841954047
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841958637
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29,512 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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11 of 11 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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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 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.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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