Following the success of The Wasp Factory, Banks began to write full-time. According to Banks, this allowed him to treat the story as something resembling science fiction – the island could be envisaged as a planet, and Frank, the protagonist, almost as an alien. Banks decided to try a more mainstream novel in the hopes that it would be more readily accepted, and wrote about a psychopathic teenager living on a remote Scottish island. Antique clock, crab claws, worm shells, glassware, venus fly trap, old clock parts, resin, lighter, plastic tubing, bones, insects, arachnids, plant roots. Before the publication of The Wasp Factory, Banks had written several science fiction novels that had not been accepted for publication. To some, Banks is a visionary crafting a tale of the macabre. The book has appeared on a number of greatest horror lists and in a poll was even named one of the top 100 novels of the century. Recorded at the National Library of Scotland. The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks, has garnered many accolades since its initial release in 1984. “The Wasp Factory is the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1984. Iain Banks talks to James Naughtie and readers about his ground-breaking first novel The Wasp Factory. He leads a strange, secret life he has created an elaborate set of rituals and invented a system of belief involving a mysterious Wasp Factory. It tells the story of Frank Cauldhame, a 16-year-old boy who lives in an isolated part of Scotland.

Light shelf wear to edges - particular to spine crown and foot. The Wasp Factory is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks. Some edge wear with a tiny tear to front panel and some curling to spine ends. The Wasp Factory is a novel written by Scottish writer Iain Banks in 1984, that deals with the deconstruction of its protagonist Franks gender identity. Original octavo black cloth over white paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($13.95) dust-jacket.

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