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 …
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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. 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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Published March 17, 1988 by Futura.
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The wasp factory
184 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1984 by Macmillan.
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184 pages
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Published March 17, 1985 by Futura.
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Wasp Factory
256 pages
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Published March 17, 2008 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
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The Wasp Factory
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Published Sept. 17, 1998 by Argo.
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Wasp Factory
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Published March 17, 2001 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
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Wasp Factory
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Published March 17, 1993 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
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Published March 17, 2019 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
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