Iain Banks

Broschiertes Buch

The Wasp Factory

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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. Since then he has gained enormous popular and critical acclaim with further works of fiction and, as Iain M. Banks, science fiction. He lives in Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 134mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 152g
• ISBN-13: 9780684853154
• ISBN-10: 0684853159
• Artikelnr.: 21430709

Rezensionen

I discovered The Wasp Factory in the early 1990s and was stunned by its original story and dark humour. I'd not read anything like it before and haven't since. It wielded that raw energy of a first novel but at the same time was confident and accomplished, carving a tricky line between gritty reality and surreal comedy. It gave me a sense of unease over whether I was immersed in truth or fantasy, while at the same time knowing I was being guided by a masterly storyteller... most of all this book floored me with its astounding twists - that feeling of not having seen something that was there all along has never left me Janice Hallett Guardian