The Wasp Factory

Synopsis: 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 p sychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an i mperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his fru strations. 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 f or his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries o f 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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0349101779

ISBN-13: 9780349101774

Publisher: Abacus

Year: 1992

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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