Iain Banks

The Wasp Factory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2028
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 41g
• ISBN-13: 9780349142906
• ISBN-10: 0349142904
• Artikelnr.: 60590120

Autorenporträt

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013.

Rezensionen

A gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality... macabre, bizarre and... quite impossible to put down. There is a control and assurance in the book, an originality rare in established writers twice the author's age. This is an outstandingly good read Financial Times

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