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The Wasp Factory
A Novel
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Readers interested in psychological thrillers, dark humour, and unconventional narratives will find this novel compelling. Suitable for mature readers due to its disturbing themes.
Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily Express".
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The polarising literary debut by Scottish author Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory is a 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.
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ISBN: 9780684853154
Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 September 1998
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Prentice Hall & IBD
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 204g
Pages: 184
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About the Author
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
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