{"product_id":"9780684853154","title":"The Wasp Factory : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wasp Factory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Iain Banks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wasp Factory\u003c\/i\u003e is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTwo 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThat's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt was just a stage I was going through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e One of the top 100 novels of the century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Brilliant...irresistible...compelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e A mighty imagination has arrived on the scene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e There's nothing to force you, having been warned, to read it; nor do I recommend it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePunch\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wasp Factory\u003c\/i\u003e is a first novel not only of tremendous promise, but also of achievement, a minor masterpiece perhaps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) Rubbish!\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e A literary equivalent of the nastiest brand of juvenile delinquency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e Read it if you dare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780684853154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40592278814926,"sku":"9780684853154","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_83b64969-273a-41b2-ac7f-beeebdb0c708.jpg?v=1646780565","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780684853154","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}