The Wasp Factory

(Paperback)

Available Formats

---

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

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.

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 *

Author Bio

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.