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I sat in the crematorium, listening to my uncle hamish quietly snoring in harmony to bachs mass in b minor and reflected that it was always death that brought me back to gallanach. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 501 pages and is available in paperback format. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name menzies following the publication and success of the wasp factory 1984, banks began to write on a fulltime basis. Named one of the top 100 novels of the century by the independent, the wasp factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath frank is no ordinary sixteenyearold. His first science fiction book, consider phlebas, was released. Buy the crow road by banks, iain from amazons fiction books store. 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.
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