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Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. 1998., Available now.
Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. 1998., Available now. Offered in 0 more formats
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.
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