I look down at Eric again, and smile, nod to myself in the breeze while the waves break and the wind moves spray and grass and a few birds call. I suppose I’ll have to tell him what’s happened to me.
Poor Eric came home to see his brother, only to find (Zap! Pow! Dams burst! Bombs go off! Wasps fry: ttssss!) he’s got a sister.
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.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1984 by Iain Banks
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First paperback edition 1998
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Banks, Iain.
The wasp factory: a novel / Iain Banks.
p. cm.
1. Fathers and sons—Scotland—Fiction. 2. Serial murders—Scotland—Fiction 3. Teenage boys—Scotland—Fiction. 4. Psychopaths—Scotland—Fiction. 5. Murderers—Scotland—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6052.A485W3 1998b
823'.914—dc21 98-8355
CIP
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85315-4
ISBN-10: 0-684-85315-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-5024-8 (eBook)