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Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. Iain Banks' celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality, imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.
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Fathers and sons, Fiction, Serial murders, Teenage boys, Murderers, PsychopathsPlaces
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Bu feng qi: The wasp factory
2009, Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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The Wasp Factory
March 19, 2001, HarperCollins Audio
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The wasp factory: a novel
1998, Scribner Paperback Fiction
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The Wasp Factory
July 20, 1986, Random House Value Publishing
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0517626217 9780517626214
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