An edition of The wasp factory (1984)

The Wasp Factory

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An edition of The wasp factory (1984)

The Wasp Factory

  • 3.81 ·
  • 16 Ratings
  • 144 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 34 Have read

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. Iain Banks' celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality, imagination and 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; and compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.

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Abacus
Language
English

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Cover of: The wasp factory
The wasp factory: a novel
1998, Scribner Paperback Fiction
in English - 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. 1998.
Cover of: The Wasp Factory
The Wasp Factory
April 1, 1992, Abacus
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Wasp Factory
The Wasp Factory
1990, Abacus
Paperback in English

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London, UK

First Sentence

"I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped."

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1984

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Library of Congress
PR6052.A485

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xi, 244p

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26871881M
ISBN 10
0349139180
ISBN 13
9780349139180

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