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The Wasp Factory

The Wasp Factory - Paperback

by Iain Banks
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Availability:In StockContributor:Iain BanksPublish date:1998-09-10Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780684853154ISBN-10:684853159UPC:9780684853154Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Horror, Literary, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCN9HS5PKQ
The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least:

Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.

That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again.

It was just a stage I was going through.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780684853154ISBN-10:684853159UPC:9780684853154Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Horror, Literary, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCN9HS5PKQ
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the original publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, recently selected in a British poll as one of the top 100 novels of the century. Since then he has gained enormous popular and critical acclaim with further works of fiction and, as Iain M. Banks, science fiction. He lives in Scotland
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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