- Auctioneers, Fiction, Gay men, Literature
When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous autioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly distrubing photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who coveted them. What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness...
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Louise Welsh
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Canongate, Canongate U.S., CANONGATE BOOKS
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9781841952802
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