The Wasp Factory

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Wasp Factory
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Iain Banks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 124
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780349139180
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Abacus
Publication Date 27 June 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'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.

Author Biography

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.

Reviews

One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across * Telegraph * One of the top 100 novels of the century * Independent * Read it if you dare * Express * A brilliant book, barmy and barnacled with the grotesque * New Statesman * Macabre, bizarre and impossible to put down * Financial Times * Brilliant . . . irresistible . . . compelling * New York Times *