The wasp factory
Banks, Iain, 1954-20132021
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Total copies: 2
Frank, no ordinary 16-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. His elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital. When news comes of Eric's escape, Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return. The Wasp Factoryis a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. 'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different 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.' Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.
Main title:
The wasp factory / Iain Banks.
Author:
Banks, Iain, 1954-2013, author
Work:
Edition:
Dyslexic-friendly edition.
Imprint:
Solihull : Clarity Books Ltd, 2021.
Collation:
366 pages (large print)
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London: Macmillan, 1984.
ISBN:
9781912789337 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
382196