THE WASP FACTORY

by Iain Banks

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First edition

London: Macmillan, 1984. First Edition. The Scottish author's first published novel, narrated by a psychopathic teenager living on a remote Scottish island. Sixteen-year-old Francis Cauldhame contemplates ritual animal and insect sacrifice, casual murder and family secrets as he waits for the cataclysmic return of his older brother, an escaped lunatic Barron, Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide 4-19 . Item #5408

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