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      The Wasp Factory

      by Iain M. Banks
      Published
      Aug 1984
      Main Genre
      Horror Horror
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      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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      Speculative Fiction

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      Horror

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      Mar 1986 Warner ISBN13 9780446340878 ISBN10 0446340871
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      First Edition Aug 1984 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780395362969 ISBN10 0395362962
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