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The Wasp Factory

by Iain Banks

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ISBN 10
0349101779
ISBN 13
9780349101774
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Abacus, UK, 2010. 31st trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.

The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all. A novel of extraordinary originality, imagination and comic ferocity.

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The Wasp Factory was the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks. It was published in 1984.

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Title
The Wasp Factory
Author
Iain Banks
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
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Edition
31st printing
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0349101779
ISBN 13
9780349101774
Publisher
Abacus
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2010
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