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Title	:	The Wasp Factory
Author	:	Iain Banks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	1998 by Simon & Schuster (NYC) (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Horror. Thriller. Mystery. Contemporary

The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 71559 Users | 4100 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	The Wasp Factory
ISBN:	0684853159 (ISBN13: 9780684853154)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Frank Cauldhame, Eric Cauldhame, Angus Cauldhame, Mrs Clamp, Diggs
Setting:	Scotland
Literary Awards:	Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Novel (1992)

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Nifty freakshow with significantly horrific tableaux which will remain with you somewhat of an eternity...!!

Question: Are violence and cruelty innate to human nature or is man inherently civilised?This is the question posed by that most controversial and loved/ hated novel, The Lord of the Flies. The same question is posed in this book too. However, whereas the canvas was a huge one there, in The Wasp Factory, the reader is viewing things under a microscope. Rather like watching bugs.From chapter one onwards, Iain Banks invites us into the head of Frank Cauldhame, who is one seriously disturbed

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Dark. Deceptive. Dysfunctional. Disgusting. Devious. I wanted to read this for so long but the chances of me reading this increased when I saw this in 1001 books to read before you die. I was warned beforehand that this could be yucky at times but would be rewarding if I stick to the end. Since this is a real shorty at 192 pages, I just couldn't DNF it. After really hating the protagonist for first 30% of the book, I suddenly started to like him. I still can't put my finger on what changed but