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They would come over from Belfast to stay with us in the summers sometimes my father used to get on well with Harmsworth, and because I looked after Esmerelda they could have a nice relaxing holiday here. The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove, my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father’s first marriage they were the couple who had looked after Eric when he was younger. I did like Esmerelda (even if I thought her name was a bit soppy) and played with her a lot when she came to stay. n in particular, before the insidious and evil influence of society and their parents have properly got to them, are sexlessly open and hence perfectly likeable. Children aren’t real people, in the sense that they are not small males and females but a separate species which will (probably) grow into one or the other in due time. My cousin was simply the easiest and most obvious target.Īgain, I bore her no personal ill-will. 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. If I really had the courage of my convictions, I reasoned, I ought to redress the balance at least slightly. I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
What reading level is The Wasp Factory book? 12.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 324.90 1 Used from 324.90 2 New from 416.00 The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels.
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