The Wasp Factory Sociology Publication Date: 25 Sep 2018

Publication Date: 25 Sep 2018

the anxieties posed by age and uncertainty—and the bizarre

Winner of the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction

When you flip the book over

religion and creative evolution

The Wasp Factory Sociology Publication Date: 25 Sep 2018Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here and here. Frank no ordinary sixteen year old lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his