The Wasp Factory and We Need to Talk About Kevin

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The Wasp Factory

The blurb from the brilliant but grotesque novel The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. One reason the novel has such impact is because the world in which Frank inhabits is simultaneously our world and a completely different one altogether. It is clear that the setting is Scotland, and normal life occurs around Frank, but does not explicitly come into contact with him, despite the rather bland and generic name.

In fact, the closest he ...