The Wasp Factory: Abacus 40th Annivesary Edition

The Wasp Factory: Abacus 40th Annivesary Edition

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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 frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.

The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all. A novel of extraordinary originality, imagination and comic ferocity.
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Pages
194
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5.99 €

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1.5

Re-Read. Im Endeffekt nur dazu da, um Gewalt an Tieren zu beschreiben und immer wieder zu betonen, dass Frauen minderwertige Wesen sind. Erzählstruktur ist whack und die Geschichte ist absolut nichtssagend. Es ist, kurzgesagt, einfach langweilig, unkreativ und weiß überhaupt nicht, wohin mit sich. Schreibweise war immerhin nice....

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I didn’t like this book at all and it barely reached to 2 stars on the rating system I use. I only read it because I heard, it had a jaw-dropping twist but even that didn’t work for me. I would have DNFed it, if it weren’t this short and had an accessible writing style. It wasn’t for me but if you like short, “dark”, queasy books with unnecessary violence, maybe you can like this.

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