The Wasp Factory
  • Published:
    Aug-1984
    1986 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Horror
  • Pages:
    192
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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.

It was just a stage I was going through.
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    •  
    • Mar-1986
    • Warner
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0446340871
    • ISBN13: 9780446340878
    •  
    • Apr-1998
    • Villard
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0375751122
    • ISBN13: 9780375751127
    •  
    • Sep-1998
    • Simon & Schuster
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0684853159
    • ISBN13: 9780684853154
    •  
    • Jul-2013
    • Little, Brown
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0349139180
    • ISBN13: 9780349139180
    • First Edition
    • Aug-1984
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0395362962
    • ISBN13: 9780395362969
    •  
    • Jul-2001
    • Little, Brown
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0316858560
    • ISBN13: 9780316858564
    •  
    • Jul-2013
    • Simon & Schuster
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1476750246
    • ISBN13: 9781476750248
    •  
    • Jul-2013
    • Simon & Schuster
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Sep-1998
    • Argo
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 185849639X
    • ISBN13: 9781858496399
    •  
    • Mar-2001
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0007116098
    • ISBN13: 9780007116096



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