Since then he has gained enormous popular and critical acclaim with further works of fiction and, as Iain M. About the Author Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the original publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, recently selected in a British poll as one of the top 100 novels of the century. The Times (London) Rubbish! Times Literary Supplement A literary equivalent of the nastiest brand of juvenile delinquency. The Scotsman Theres nothing to force you, having been warned, to read it nor do I recommend it. The Independent One of the top 100 novels of the century. The Financial Times Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down. Punch The Wasp Factory is a first novel not only of tremendous promise, but also of achievement, a minor masterpiece perhaps. Mail on Sunday A mighty imagination has arrived on the scene. Review Quotes Daily Express Read it if you dare. I havent killed anybody for years, and dont intend to ever again.

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 Id disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.

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. About the Book Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person.

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