The Wasp Factory

A Novel

By: Iain Banks

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Paperback | 10 September 1998

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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.

Industry Reviews

Daily Express Read it if you dare. Times Literary Supplement A literary equivalent of the nastiest brand of juvenile delinquency. The Times (London) Rubbish! Punch The Wasp Factory is a first novel not only of tremendous promise, but also of achievement, a minor masterpiece perhaps. The Scotsman There's nothing to force you, having been warned, to read it; nor do I recommend it. The Financial Times Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down. Mail on Sunday A mighty imagination has arrived on the scene. The New York Times Brilliant...irresistible...compelling. The Independent One of the top 100 novels of the century.

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