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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.

The Wasp Factory A Novel

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      Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/28/1998
      ISBN13: 9780684853154, 978-0684853154
      ISBN10: 0684853159

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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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