{"product_id":"the-wasp-factory-9780684853154","title":"The Wasp Factory","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wasp Factory\u003c\/i\u003e is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was just a stage I was going through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the original publication of his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wasp Factory, \u003c\/i\u003e recently selected in a British poll as one of the top 100 novels of the century. Since then he has gained enormous popular and critical acclaim with further works of fiction and, as Iain M. Banks, science fiction. He lives in Scotland\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50600082997522,"sku":"9780684853154","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9045431f-fa95-4432-98dc-f21603cdb360.jpg?v=1732209030","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wasp-factory-9780684853154","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}