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The Wasp Factory Iain M. Banks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Fellow author Rankin paid tribute to his friend's “great imagination” and said he had not come to the end of his time as a writer. From being blown away by The Wasp Factory aged 16, to the latest Culture novel, he has been a constant reminder of all that can be good in literature. Author Iain Banks has died aged 59, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, his family has said. The Fife-born author was best known for his novels The Crow Road and cult hit The Wasp Factory. RIP Iain Banks, 59, Scottish author (The Wasp Factory), cancer. I have nothing to say only to show" --Walter Benjamin. | her debut novel, author sam jane, first novel, new york. The Wasp Factory is 3.99 as well The Wasp Factory: Abacus 40th Annivesary Edition Abacus 40th Anniversary: Amazon.co.uk: Iain Banks: Books · Share. Iain Banks came to immediate attention with the publication of The Wasp Factory in 1984. Editor Richard Evans told me that he was proud that they had found The Wasp Factory on the slush pile -- it was an unsolicited manuscript. The Courier: An opera based on Iain Banks' first novel will get its world premiere later this year, just months after his death. I was twelve years old when I saw a man nearly die. The Wasp Factory is a first-person account by a sixteen-year-old boy, Frank Cauldhame, living with his eccentric father on a small island off the coast of Scotland. Even some of his mainstream works like The Wasp Factory borrow heavily from the imagery of genre (horror, in the case of Wasp Factory) but his incredible skill as a writer carried him above the genre ghetto. By Don Waters | April 11th, 2013 – 11:00 am. The terrible news has broken that author Iain Banks has lost his battle with cancer. Iain Banks was best known for his novels The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Complicity. "Method of this work: literary montage. Latest Tweet: Photo: Charles au jersey rayé http://t.co/pFknfbTwwt.