Ebook {Epub PDF} The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

THE WASP FACTORY. by Iain M. Banks ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 24, Through much of this impressive first novel, almost up until the awkward and misguided finale, young Scottish writer Banks achieves that fine British balance—between horrific content on the one hand and matter-of-fact comic delivery on the www.doorway.ru: Kirkus Reviews. The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. "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. Iain Banks was born in Scotland, where he lived for the majority of his life. He wanted to be a writer from an early age, and after a series of unpublished attempts at science fiction in the late s, he published his first novel, The Wasp Factory, at the age of thirty. Banks wrote twenty-seven novels during his lifetime, the last of which was published posthumously.

The Wasp Factory Summary. Frank Cauldhame lives with his father, Angus, on a small island in Scotland. They are easily connected to the mainland by a bridge, but Frank is nonetheless cut off from the outside world. Angus claims Frank has no birth certificate, and as a result, Frank has spent his entire life on the island in relative isolation. Out Now: Iain Banks' 'The Wasp Factory', Audio CD, read by Peter Kenny. A brand new audio adaptation of Iain Banks' career-launching debut novel, The Wasp Factory, is available now on CD Audiobook from Hachette Audio. The narrator is Peter Kenny, an actor and singer who has worked [ ] Read More. Related Categories: Audiobook News. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Publisher: Abacus Rating: /5 The Wasp Factory is the kind of book that publishers love. It's weird enough to be lumped into that bracket of 'Modern Classics', along with books like The Crying of Lot 49, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, and other oblique, semi-mysterious titles from the '80s, but it is.

The Wasp Factory Summary. Next. Chapter 1. Frank Cauldhame lives with his father, Angus, on a small island in Scotland. They are easily connected to the mainland by a bridge, but Frank is nonetheless cut off from the outside world. Angus claims Frank has no birth certificate, and as a result, Frank has spent his entire life on the island in relative isolation—his father homeschooled him and addressed all of his medical concerns. THE WASP FACTORY. by Iain M. Banks ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 24, Through much of this impressive first novel, almost up until the awkward and misguided finale, young Scottish writer Banks achieves that fine British balance—between horrific content on the one hand and matter-of-fact comic delivery on the other. Six thoughts on The Wasp Factory: 1. Yes, The Wasp Factory has a lot of disturbing images of a psychotic youth committing violence on people and animals. 2. Yes, it's worth it. Everything has a reason, a purpose. The book is full of physical and emotional violence, but it's decidedly not gratuitous. 3. Iain Banks is once again inside my head, but this time it disturbs me rather deeply.