The Wasp Factory plays [T]he rapid-fire rhythm and pungent

[T]he rapid-fire rhythm and pungent dialect of the dialogue carry the reader relentlessly toward the literally filthy denouement

Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past

As Arthur falls in and out of love

Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen

Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech

The Wasp Factory plays [T]he rapid-fire rhythm and pungentFrank, 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