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The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
  • Published: 15 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099565956
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $24.99

The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones

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3 Jan 2013
Paperback
15 Apr 2014
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Explosive, transgressive, ambitious, wildly imaginative debut from a major new writer

The year is 1750.

Meet Tristan Hart, precociously talented student of medicine.

His obsession is the nature of pain and preventing. He is on a quest to cut through superstition with the brilliant blade of science.

Meet Tristan Hart, madman and deviant.

His obsession is the nature of pain, and causing it. He is on a quest to arouse the perfect scream and slay the daemon Raw Head who torments his days and nights.

Troubled visionary, twisted genius, loving sadist.

What is real and what imagined in Tristan Hart’s brutal, beautiful, complex world?
  • Published: 15 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099565956
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Jack Wolf

Jack Wolf was born in Bath, and has spent most of his life in rural Somerset. He wanted to be a singer until his interests in faerie tales and in social history led to a writing career. The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is his first novel. He is currently studying for a PhD and working on his second novel.

JW