The Wasp Factory: A Novel - Softcover

Banks, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684853159 ISBN 13: 9780684853154

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

The Independent One of the top 100 novels of the century.

The New York Times Brilliant...irresistible...compelling.

The Financial Times Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down.

Mail on Sunday A mighty imagination has arrived on the scene.

The Scotsman There's nothing to force you, having been warned, to read it; nor do I recommend it.

Punch The Wasp Factory is a first novel not only of tremendous promise, but also of achievement, a minor masterpiece perhaps.

The Times (London) Rubbish!

Times Literary Supplement A literary equivalent of the nastiest brand of juvenile delinquency.

Daily Express Read it if you dare.

Book Description:

* Hardcover reissue of Iain Banks' momentous first novel, published in 1984.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684853159
• ISBN 13: 9780684853154
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184