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The Wasp Factory: A Novel

Iain Banks

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The Wasp Factory: A Novel

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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
Category:: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format:: Paperback
Publication Date:: 1998-09-28
Publisher:: Prentice Hall & Ibd
Country of origin:: USA
Pages:: 192
Weight:: 151g

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Three Stars
all rather bizarre

Reviewed by Marianne V. | see all reviews by Marianne V.

10/03/2013

The Wasp Factory is the first novel by Scottish author, Iain Banks, and has been listed as one of the top 100 novels of the century by The Independent. Seventeen year old Frank L. Cauldhame is the second child of Angus Cauldhame, a somewhat reclusive doctor living on a firth island by the Scottish coast. Frank, by his own admission, has murdered three people and his brother Eric is in a mental hospital for setting fire to dogs and terrorising young children. As Frank narrates, almost emotionlessly, the events that occur after Eric escapes, it becomes quickly apparent that this resourceful youth is seriously disturbed. This novel has been described as brilliant and compelling, but also as rubbish. Banks has a brilliant imagination and knows how to make the reader gasp and squirm. All rather bizarre.
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