![]() Eric is a charming chap who has taken to setting fire to dogs. Tension rises as Frank waits for Eric, his older brother. As his father hides away in his study, up to no good, Frank embarks upon military campaigns against rabbits and sacrifices wasps in his own warped version of the Delphi Oracle, The Wasp Factory. Frank's distasteful personal habits and strange, obsessive daily routines are gruesome yet hilarious in the darkest kind of way. ![]() Frank is not your run-of-the mill adolescent he announces from the outset that he is a three times familial murderer with the throwaway line, "it was just a stage I was going through". If you did, it'll speak volumes to you, as it did - and does - to me.įrank, a physically deformed young man in his mid-teens, lives with his father - an eccentric man to say the least - on a remote Scottish island. However, it does lose a little in time and place and perhaps you'd need to have lived through 'Thatcher's Britain' to fully appreciate it. ![]() It's raw, but it's very, very naughty and very, very funny. ![]() Summary: A very funny debut from Banks, who has now become one of the UK's most respected and established writers. ![]()
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