The Wasp Factory: A Novel

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.

• | Author: Iain Banks
• | Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
• | Publication Date: Sep 28, 1998
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780684853154
• | ISBN-10: 0684853159